On Saturday, February 20, 2016 at 3:42:04 AM UTC-5, RichA wrote:
On Friday, February 19, 2016 at 5:39:30 PM UTC-5, wsne... wrote:
On Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 11:44:02 PM UTC-5, RichA wrote:
Those fantastic scopes stuck in a MUSEUM!!! Pentax/Ricoh, what have you DONE??!

http://www.cloudynights.com/page/art...elescope-r3040

It's better that this equipment end up in a museum than as scrap metal. As mentioned in the article, most of it was falling into disuse.

You can never tell what stupid people will do.

We can make educated guesses. For example, peterson will probably vote for Trump in the primary and for the demonrat in the general. He will also display his ignorance again, perhaps even in this very thread.

A friend of mine just got a FREE Questar 3.5" The company that owned it was just going to scrap it.

The amount of paperwork and staff time to sell such an item probably wasn't worth it.

Somehow, I don't really envy your friend, as nice as Questars are. (I would never buy a used Questar without original bill of sale and fully documented provenance.)