Date   : Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:39:43 +0100
From   : afra@... (Phill Harvey-Smith)
Subject: reading data from old hard disk

me@... wrote:
> On 27 Jun 2009, at 14:44, Alex Taylor wrote:
> 
> There's some psychological factors in play as well - as higher 
> starting price can often encourage higher bids.

Speaking personally, if there where say 5 Beebs on ebay, 4 of them for 
?10 and one for ?150, unless the ?150 one had something super rare then 
guess which one I'd bid on.

I guess there are different types of seller, those that just asume 
because it's 'spectrum era' that it must be worth loads, and those like 
the people on this group that know it's 'real' worth.

I'd also rather have something that works than something that looks 
'mint' the exception to that was when my better half bought me my ZX80, 
I told her to look out for one that looked in good nick, as being made 
only of standard LS chips I knew I could almost cirtainly repair a 
broken one, which I did :)

Cheers.

Phill.

-- 
Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric !

"You can twist perceptions, but reality won't budge" -- Rush.