Big dollars paid for Altair 8800 on Ebay

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Chuck Guzis wrote:
> A confession.  I'm not a collector.  I don't understand collectors,
> particularly the exhaustive ones.  You see this sort of thing a lot in
> musical instruments.  I know an attorney for Micron who has warehouse space
> for his tuba collection (which numbers in the hundreds).  He can't possibly
> play them all.  

I'm a collector, but I use everything I collect.  Sometimes it takes me 
a long while to get around to getting something running.

> But then, people collect Beanie Babies and I haven't the faintest idea of
> what they're good for.

For throwing at people, of course.  8;-)

Peace...  Sridhar