UI (Was: OT: Microsoft crazy academic deal

[David Griffith]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Jules Richardson wrote:

> David Griffith wrote:
> >> It may seem amazing to this list, but there is a group of people for
> >> whom collecting software is a hobby.  While it's mostly limited to game
> >> titles, some non-game packages are valued more if they're of historical
> >> value (ie. Windows 1.0 or Microsoft Word 1 bundled with the microsoft
> >> mouse, etc., still shrinked).
> >
> > It's not amazing to me.  I've sold a fair number of still-shrinked CP/M
> > packages.
>
> OK, I really don't get the shrinkwrapping thing - it seems like having some
> ancient Egyptian artifact shut away in a wooden crate so that nobody can ever
> see it...
>
> (plus, if these people never open the shrinkwrapping, how do they authenticate
> that the contents - and the shrinkwrapping itself - are original? Seems way
> too open to scamming to me)

I figure that if I scam someone, I have a lot to lose in the classic
computer community.

-- 
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu

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