video of me scrapping now up on a friend of mines website

[FDIV]

A group of my friends have started a website where we all publicly display our more socially acceptable eccentricities. This weeks segment is "Jim's junk" and is about my cpu collecting. Check it out. (Oh, I know you all know me as Les my name was Lester James so to some I'm Jim to others Les)

http://wideopenmind.com/

-Les

[Cpuswe]

Im on the internets!!!

Really nice vid there. Im really enviuous of that junk yard. Wish we had those here in Sweden where you could just dig in... Are you allowed to put up a tent there?

[hugo929]

pitty i cannot download it or view online:
http://blip.tv/file/get/Wideopenmind-06JimsJunk859.mp4

[Windmiller]

Awesome video, it was nice to see the IBM keychain!!! The scrapyard footage was awesome, I could watch that all day.

P.S.
I still think that keychain is the neatest piece of cpu memorabilia I have ever seen

[JAC]

Does not work for me.

[el_gecko]

...want to move...

[johnorun]

Hey Jim,

I liked your video, but it played like crap on my Quicktime player, even after I d'loaded the latest version.
How do you get permission to get into the scrapyard? I would like to salvage chips in Chicago, but I need to know the process. Did you offer to sign a liability waiver?
We should hold a chip-collectors meeting this summer for us Midwestern addicts--anyone interested?

[FDIV]

As for the quicktime video I am sorry. The Leigh and Steve, the ones who shot the video, are unfortunately aflicted with an inexplicable love for macintrash computers. I have never found quicktime videos to work reliably on any machine. I have found if you try jumping to a different part of the video when it glitches it will glitch.

My advice on getting into scrapyards is that from my experience bribery, offering more than they are already getting for old chips, has never gotten me into a place. This business/profitability aproach seems to be ineffective. I don't know if it is the constant barage of "business opportunities," that owners of successfully businesses are subjected to or what but I have had no luck. I think humans have a natural tendency twords saying no to anything that changes the status quo.

Instead the couple scrapyards I have managed secure relationships with have been won over by curiosity as to why and how I am collecting. Although I don't specifically tell them what I expect to get for chips I do tell them what chips I look for and why they are interesting. Only once has a scrapyard owner tried to gouge me or to eliminate me and sell on e-bay himself. He failed because of lack of knowledge and now he doesn't get more than gold rate for any of his chips because he won't sell to me and he has no knowledge.

I suggest trying to form something of a casual relationship with the owner of the scrapyard and trying to get him curious about why you would collect such objects. Tell them a little about the history of computing and what role the chips you collect play in the preservation of that history. Oh, and don't tell them you are going to sell chips. Avoid business talk like the plague it seems to always fail.

Good luck,
Les

[el_gecko]

Video works fine on Vista with VLC player. Try to avoid Quicktime

[donutty]

Works for me. Great video and well shot. I'm surprised you said 'Scrap yard' instead of 'Junk yard'