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says...
****, John, you're selling your stuff!??!! What's going on?

Short answer: I treat eBay like a giant storage locker, where they pay
to keep my stuff while I'm not using it. :-)

Long answer: my usual M.O. is to undertake long-term personal projects
in batches of two or three, which often take years at a time. I've
recently reached a point in one of those cycles where I'm happy with the
results and content to call it all "done" for the time being.

My next big thing is purely software-based, in an entirely-unrelated
field. I've already put a lot of work into this project, and it's
become apparent that I'm going to have to focus on it to the exclusion
of pretty much everything else if I'm ever going to finish it. Because
I've got at least another year of software work ahead, it doesn't make
sense for me to pay to store a lot of hardware that someone else could
be using towards productive/fun ends.

I'm not the least bit happy about giving up some of that gear,
particularly the 8566B. But if I keep it around, I will play with it.
Historically, that's been a fairly-serious (almost addiction-level)
personal problem. It gets in the way of other long-term goals, so I
have to take positive, hard-to-undo steps to move ahead.

Watch Gandalf trying to convince Bilbo to give up his favorite toy, and
you'll get the idea...

-- jm

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