Comments on: The Trough of No Value http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1796 Jason Scott's Weblog Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:59:02 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Flack http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1796/comment-page-1#comment-10500 Flack Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:10:35 +0000 http://ascii.textfiles.com/?p=1796#comment-10500 JayP: I stopped at an even dozen spare 1541 drives (that's not counting the two 1571s I have hooked up to my 64, the 1541 I have hooked up to an old 486 for transferring disks, and the 1541 that died, got gutted, and was temporarily used as a piggy bank ... I just had another thought. You know what lives in the Trough of No Value? Old modems. Even the people I know that collect "everything old computer related" don't want old modems. JayP: I stopped at an even dozen spare 1541 drives (that’s not counting the two 1571s I have hooked up to my 64, the 1541 I have hooked up to an old 486 for transferring disks, and the 1541 that died, got gutted, and was temporarily used as a piggy bank …

I just had another thought. You know what lives in the Trough of No Value? Old modems. Even the people I know that collect “everything old computer related” don’t want old modems.

]]> By: JayP http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1796/comment-page-1#comment-9744 JayP Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:46:15 +0000 http://ascii.textfiles.com/?p=1796#comment-9744 Thanks for the link. I used to find myself buying technology based on "it used to cost 10x 4 years ago" which led to my buying every C64/128 that popped up on the local usenet. It wasn't too much later that someone asked if anyone had a C64 to replace one her grandmother used to play cards. I gave them a c64 and 2 1541s. There is always some value to someone, somewhere. Thanks for the link.
I used to find myself buying technology based on “it used to cost 10x 4 years ago” which led to my buying every C64/128 that popped up on the local usenet.

It wasn’t too much later that someone asked if anyone had a C64 to replace one her grandmother used to play cards. I gave them a c64 and 2 1541s.

There is always some value to someone, somewhere.

]]> By: Flack http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1796/comment-page-1#comment-9740 Flack Mon, 16 Feb 2009 01:45:11 +0000 http://ascii.textfiles.com/?p=1796#comment-9740 While cleaning the garage this weekend it hit me; you know what lives in the trough of no value? Dot matrix printers. Over the past five or so years I amassed at least a dozen of those things, mostly while picking up collections of stuff. I put them in three categories: "well used", "like new", and "new in box." A couple of years ago I tossed out all the well used ones. I've tried selling and even giving away the like new and new in box ones and have had zero luck. The like new ones are facing the chopping block. I don't know if I can wait out the trough on these. While cleaning the garage this weekend it hit me; you know what lives in the trough of no value? Dot matrix printers. Over the past five or so years I amassed at least a dozen of those things, mostly while picking up collections of stuff. I put them in three categories: “well used”, “like new”, and “new in box.” A couple of years ago I tossed out all the well used ones. I’ve tried selling and even giving away the like new and new in box ones and have had zero luck. The like new ones are facing the chopping block. I don’t know if I can wait out the trough on these.

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