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    Re: Biggest "steal" you ever made...

    Randy, most were totally ####ing ignorant like most of the prospects. 25/3.5 Luminar delivered from Denmark for $55? No one who had a clue saw it. 100/6.3 Luminar for $25 at a camera show? Same...
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    We rarely did. Need a sort? Check what's in Knuth. Remember that?

    When I was building a multiprocessor machine with operating system and distributed database -- basically a buncha DOS boxes on...
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    Heretic! Unix is not OS with the JCL hidden and bundled with poorly documented programmers' utilities. At any rate, that's what the old Unix crew in the Labs told me. These are the same people who...
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    Re: Biggest "steal" you ever made...

    Hmm. I'm only an economist, got a CSU/DSU in '93 so I could have my own T-1. For the volumes of data I was moving FedExNet delivery of square tapes by truck, plane and truck was much faster. ...
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    Re: Biggest "steal" you ever made...

    John, it gets worse. Roughly a month after I'd sold those two 240s I bought another one, also dagor type, via eBay.co.uk for $50 delivered. So yours is more or less on trend.

    You're right, those...
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    Re: Biggest "steal" you ever made...

    You paid $60 for a 240 G-Claron? That's a lot, John, way over market.

    I once bought two 240/9 dagor type G-Clarons in our local flea market for $20. That's $20 for the pair, not for each.
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    Re: Biggest "steal" you ever made...

    I don't know about magnitude, but I think this one is my heaviest.

    900/10 Apo Saphir. Weighs 3.9 kg. Covers 655 mm at infinity. Mounting threads M140x1.5. If a long pinhole is needed, it stops...
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    Re: Biggest "steal" you ever made...

    Bill, garage sales are an urban legend. I've never found anything I wanted at one, and that includes non-photo stuff, so have written them off. Guy across the street is in dire straits, has had a...
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    Re: Biggest "steal" you ever made...

    Bill, if you don't look you won't find. Or, more exactly, if you didn't look you wouldn't have found.

    These days real steals on dealers' web sites or on eBay are quite uncommon. Dealers know...
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