[GreenKeys] The answers you get over a simple request! !

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That's only partially true.  It's also true that the fewer people who know 
that certain items are worth saving, the more who just send it to to the 
landfiill or to scrap metal dealers.

Also, it is a well known truism (dating back at least half a century) among 
people who have equipment to sell and at least know what it is that the 
market value (and therefore the probability of anyone bothering to try to offer 
it for sale) depends upon who's looking for it.  And unfortunately, in the 
hierachy of people who collect or are interested in collecting vintage 
communications hardware, TTY collectors are at the bottom of the list.  

Not to put too fine a point on it, but it is a well known fact that TTY 
collectors are the cheapest of the cheap.  I have been trying (usually) 
politely (except tonight) to point this out for three decades.  You are your own 
worst enemies when it comes to preserving gear.  Furthermore, any seller knows 
that "reasonable price" in a request for hardware is a synonym for "dirt 
cheap to free and you pay all expenses".  I personally no longer reply to any 
post on any forum looking for something "at a reasonable price".  I just hit 
the DELETE key because the post is almost never worth wasting the time to 
answer.

In a message dated 10/10/2011 22:14:32 PM Central Daylight Time, 
airrelic at juno.com writes: 
> That is really frustrating. I'm with Keelan. The less people know what 
> they really are, more the available they become for the hobby. The biggest 
> limitation for me is the distance to go get the stuff. I don't understand why 
> others embrace computers but not these old machines. I love to watch the 
> analyzer on my 922 flash the 5 code sequences and spell the words as it 
> 'foxes' just from the pattern of leds. How many people can print out messages 
> directly from streaming audio like we can? Take that, HP tech! KevinKD8QGX

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