Not everyone is on hard times. And Scott Baret is probably over-generalizing when he says that it's all teenagers buying this stuff.

A Frenchman spent $1,000 about a month ago for the ProDOS 1.0 Golden Master source code. So it's not even all Americans buying this stuff.

I mean how did these teenagers get involved with vintage Macs in the first place if not some online forum? I suppose they could just go out blindly on their own, with no contact with anyone else in the community, but seriously who does that if they want to learn more about something?

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I got started in 1998 when my grandfather gave me an SE/30 for Christmas. Since then, I've inherited most of his Apple collection, and the Apple collections of other friends and family members. That's how I got started, anyway.

It's only recently that I've actually started buying things.