Date   : Thu, 10 May 2012 22:30:02 +0200
From   : kortink@... (John Kortink)
Subject: Free Acorn kit - needs to go urgently

On Thu, 10 May 2012 20:25:45 +0100, Kris Adcock
<beeb@...> wrote:

>On 06/05/2012 21:32, John Kortink wrote:
>
>> There was this guy on Ebay that bought almost everything a
>> few years back (maybe still, I don't know), whose collection
>> I would not mind having a peek at. He seemed to buy heaps of
>> games and a couple of model Bs almost every week, I think.
>> For years on end. He must have had a spare wing in his house
>> to store it all ... I understood, talking to someone else,
>> that he was retired.
>
>If it's the same chap I sold a lot of kit to (he must have bought about 
>ten beebs off me over a year or two) he is indeed retired. He lives in 
>Cambridge - when I started working there for Sony the other year I began 
>dropping the computers off in person. Had a very nice cup of tea and a 
>chat. Very nice man, with a very understanding spouse. :)

His 'nom de Ebay' is 'penmirash'. Peeking at his feedback,
he's still at it (by the looks of it) ... Certainly a game
collector (visions of a library, one filled bookcase per
letter of the alphabet ... :-).


John Kortink