Hi all,
have one of those quandary questions to ask of you about needing to choose between:- buying Hardware OR Firmware/Software OR Documentation
So my question goes as follows:- when some items you REALLY want, suddenly become available to buy; which would you choose when you find yourself with VERY LIMITED funds and could only afford to choose a. OR b. OR c. ; where:-
a... buying a RARE hardware item you don't have, will allow you to complete a computer or development system, or at least get it much closer to being complete; possibly even operational, without maybe being 100% as it was when originally sold.
OR
b... buying a RARE Original manual for 90% to 100% complete hardware item you have, when you already have the manual, in near enough perfect scan pdf, downloaded from the internet.
OR
c.... where is c... is very RARE software or Firmware that is near impossible to recreate from online repositories
I had this problem in the last few days, when a piece of hardware (a) and some documents (b) were listed on ebay at same time.
I choose a. buying the hardware over b. buying the manual; since over 8 hrs of using various search methods, did not show up any information or photo of this item being sold or owned by anyone.
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Now for the painful wait to get the sellers acknowledgement email, informing me its now with the shipping company and giving me a tracking number
Interestingly the listing for the manual, only had a couple of photos and NO comment on the number of pages. I asked seller whom replied.
He said 11 pages. MM thinks I, so I looked at my pdf. WOW it has 45 pages.
So I go back and look at sellers photos, and it appears he has for sale, the EXORciser M68SDT manual being 11 pages, where as the pdf I got off bitsavers, has these 11 pages PLUS 34 pages, that are a group of about 16 data sheets, of the individual Motorola EXORciser plugin boards for this system.
Does pay to ask.
However in the spirit of the question I am asking, lets assume the printed material I am referring to as b.... is 100% complete and in good condition.
So over to each of you to answer which would choose a. OR b. OR c.; and why ??
have one of those quandary questions to ask of you about needing to choose between:- buying Hardware OR Firmware/Software OR Documentation
So my question goes as follows:- when some items you REALLY want, suddenly become available to buy; which would you choose when you find yourself with VERY LIMITED funds and could only afford to choose a. OR b. OR c. ; where:-
a... buying a RARE hardware item you don't have, will allow you to complete a computer or development system, or at least get it much closer to being complete; possibly even operational, without maybe being 100% as it was when originally sold.
OR
b... buying a RARE Original manual for 90% to 100% complete hardware item you have, when you already have the manual, in near enough perfect scan pdf, downloaded from the internet.
OR
c.... where is c... is very RARE software or Firmware that is near impossible to recreate from online repositories
I had this problem in the last few days, when a piece of hardware (a) and some documents (b) were listed on ebay at same time.
I choose a. buying the hardware over b. buying the manual; since over 8 hrs of using various search methods, did not show up any information or photo of this item being sold or owned by anyone.
=====
Now for the painful wait to get the sellers acknowledgement email, informing me its now with the shipping company and giving me a tracking number
Interestingly the listing for the manual, only had a couple of photos and NO comment on the number of pages. I asked seller whom replied.
He said 11 pages. MM thinks I, so I looked at my pdf. WOW it has 45 pages.
So I go back and look at sellers photos, and it appears he has for sale, the EXORciser M68SDT manual being 11 pages, where as the pdf I got off bitsavers, has these 11 pages PLUS 34 pages, that are a group of about 16 data sheets, of the individual Motorola EXORciser plugin boards for this system.
Does pay to ask.
However in the spirit of the question I am asking, lets assume the printed material I am referring to as b.... is 100% complete and in good condition.
So over to each of you to answer which would choose a. OR b. OR c.; and why ??