Date   : Sat, 24 Apr 2004 23:45:02 +0100
From   : "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <beeb@...>
Subject: Re: crazy bids being placed on Beeb auction

* John Kortink (kortink@...) wrote:
> 
> I just don't think 'buying back their youth' is what is going
> on here. Since the last couple of months, there are three or
> four people that seem to scoop up almost /every/ piece of
> interesting 8-bit hardware. And for unusually high prices,
> because each one of them seems to be as tenacious as the
> next one. Ebay at its best (from a seller's point of view).

Is it possible that someone actually NEEDS a beeb for something?
Some relic of a system still propping up some critical 
project somewhere?

Dave
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