Re: Need April 1965 issue of Electronics Magazine.
- From: Keith Williams <krw@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 01:09:49 -0400
In article <d3nh5c$1k8$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, et472@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
says...
>
> John Woodgate (jmw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) writes:
> > I read in sci.electronics.design that Joerg
> > <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote (in
> > <1sA7e.3490$dT4.3193@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>) about 'Need April 1965
> > issue of Electronics Magazine.', on Thu, 14 Apr 2005:
> >>Hello John,
> >>
> >>> It seems crazy to me. For USD10k you could replicate it, i.e. make
> >>>the printing plates again. For a lot less you could make a replica
> >>>using modern methods.
> >>
> >>You could also do that for the "Blue Mauritius" stamp that is
> >>supposedly worth millions. But then it's not an original.
> >>
> > Indeed. It depends on what they want it for. It seems a bit odd for a
> > commercial company to invest in a museum object these days.
> >
>
> Moore himself wants it, according to what I heard on NPR on Monday night.
>
> It has nothing to do with wanting to know what he wrote back then, it's
> everything to have the artifact in hand. I think the NPR piece said he'd
> lost his copy, or lent it to someone. The cost goes up because so
> many did not keep their copy.
Yep, and they're being stolen from libraries. The local (to where I am
now) library, UIUC's Granger Library, lost one of its copies in the
last couple of days. The other isn't for sale and is now under lock
and key.
> All kinds of kids give away their toys and comic books when they grow
> up (or their parents get rid of them), and then decades later they
> want those memories back. But years later, the quantity is way
> down because people have broken them, and thrown them away, so
> those who want them have to compete. But since it's the memories
> they want, substitutes do not work.
I don't long for any of my old toys, and my wife still has her
*original* Barbie. OTOH, I wish I had all the "Transformers" my son
had over the years.
--
Keith
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