Don't know about Elit, but another seller on eBay, sloguy2000, told me the following:
"We had a mail order company in the 80�s, and used to sell this stuff. Much of it has been sitting in storage for years and we are finally going through it and selling it online. We were not really expecting them to become collectible... it just has worked out that way." It could also be from liquidation sales, like all the stuff Centsible Software obtains through company buyouts. They tend to buy several truckloads of software and computer parts at once. I'm getting the impression there still are many warehouses in the US stuffed with vintage software. /Alexander -----Original Message----- From: Adam Baratz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 11:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SWCollect] The Motherlode > We'd need some fifty people to split the cost of it, can't imagine any of > us would be able to put down more than five grand. Call it a hunch, but > this won't attract any bids ;) I agree. It's one thing for a nostalgia fiend to pick up an Altair or Lisa for a lot of money, but I don't think anyone really cares about old software, or hardware for that matter, that has $250k to splurge with. This guy would do much better if he parted out the whole lot into groups of related items and sold it off that way. My question, though, is where did he *get* all that stuff from? Did some old computer store have a warehouse that never got sold off? It doesn't make sense someone would just be sitting on such a huge lot of shrinkwrapped software for no reason. -Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
