George wrote: I totally do not get your point.
Sorry if I was not clear on that.
I did my homework on the seller, the seller?s feedback,
the types of items the seller deals in, the sellers other
open auctions, and so forth, before I placed a bid.
It all seemed to be quite consistent.
The impression I was left with was that the seller
(or an employee) messed up, and eBay or their policies
helped to ?Fix it?.
Don?t get me wrong here. I don?t have a problem with an
auction being canceled if it was listed in error, nor do
I have a problem with hijacked accounts being returned
to the rightful owner. But I don?t think the latter is
what happened here.
I think that eBay may be trying too hard to accommodate
sellers. (Could it be that the more money that changes
hands the more money eBay makes?)
Thanks,
Mike Gemeny.
eBay wrote:
"As the internet evolves, eBay continues to strike a balance between preserving transparency and
protecting our Community of members. eBay has decided to change how bid history information is
displayed so bad guys cannot target bidders with fake offers using this information. In certain
cases, some bidders will no longer be able to view Bidder User IDs on the Bid History page. Your
User ID will be shown only to you and the seller of the item you're bidding on. Other members will
see an anonymous name, such as Bidder 1, applied consistently to the Bid History page."
Al replied:
"So now, you can't see who you're bidding against.
Frickin' wonderful."
Yea, that would make it a lot easier for a seller to bid against their own buyers, now wouldn't it?
Yes, eBay will argue that sellers bidding on their own items is a violation of their
"Acceptable use policy", but then again "target bidders with fake offers" would also
likely be a violation of the policy and they don't seem to be able to do anything
about that, do they?
On Jan 11 '07 I had placed a bid as the only bidder on an item with no reserve. eBay later
told me that:
"We're writing to let you know that eBay has ended the following item you were bidding on
because the item appears to have been listed without the account holder's permission: ...
We are now working to restore the account to its original owner as soon as possible.
For privacy reasons, we can't share any further details regarding this member's account. ...
As eBay removed the item, you are not obliged to send payment for it. Please don't send money
or respond to any further emails regarding this listing. ..."
Now we see who they are really trying to protect, don't we?
Mike Gemeny.
On the other hand, I have restrained myself from bidding against
people I know unless the item was very rare.
I guess I won't be able to do that any more.
This latest BS only applies to bidding over $200.00 ... or at least that is what
they are saying. Personally, I would still *really* like to see a link on
ClassicCmp.org to VCM as I think that might increase the traffic there. If I
don't know the bidder on classic computer type stuff, I will generally make them
aware of the site. Ebay has a lot of weaknesses, but so far, nobody has been
able to successfully exploit them.
> From: Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org>
> "As the internet evolves, eBay continues to strike a balance between preserving transparency and
> protecting our Community of members. eBay has decided to change how bid history information is
> displayed so bad guys cannot target bidders with fake offers using this information. In certain
> cases, some bidders will no longer be able to view Bidder User IDs on the Bid History page. Your
> User ID will be shown only to you and the seller of the item you're bidding on. Other members will
> see an anonymous name, such as Bidder 1, applied consistently to the Bid History page."
>
> --
>
> So now, you can't see who you're bidding against.
> Frickin' wonderful.
"As the internet evolves, eBay continues to strike a balance between preserving transparency and
protecting our Community of members. eBay has decided to change how bid history information is
displayed so bad guys cannot target bidders with fake offers using this information. In certain
cases, some bidders will no longer be able to view Bidder User IDs on the Bid History page. Your
User ID will be shown only to you and the seller of the item you're bidding on. Other members will
see an anonymous name, such as Bidder 1, applied consistently to the Bid History page."
--
So now, you can't see who you're bidding against.
Frickin' wonderful.
> What follows is a ten-point plan outlining the primary issues of digital archaeology
...
> I love it when someone publishes an article without doing any proper
> research.
His total lack of knowledge of the subject was obvious by what he thought
the 10 primary issues were. He seems ignorant of the serious problem of verifying
that a program was copied in its original form (as opposed to have been hacked, or
with viruses) or the need for EVERY archival container to have something like an
MD5 sum to detect corruption in the future.
One of the problems I have as a CHM curator is trying to decide how much of the
on line stuff that is out there from the pre-PC time period to snapshot (there's a
LOT!).
As someone else mentioned, the monoculture and proprietary systems are the real
preservation problems, mid 80's or so and beyond. The best I've been able to come
up with is to try to save as many SDKs as I can find, which at least gives some
level of detail on how they worked.
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Jay West" <jwest at classiccmp.org>
> In a prior life I owned a company that was a Pick dealer (Pick Systems,
> Microdata, GA, Ultimate, etc.), so all kinds of interesting Pick-related
> stuff still floats around the house and I rediscover things from time to
> time. Today one has surfaced that I thought was lost forever. My father sold
> his business recently and in cleaning out things he found a QIC cartridge
> tape I had left there for safekeeping as an off-site backup many years ago.
>
> It's a GA (General Automation) Zebra Pick OS Dealer Sysgen tape. This is a
> tape that was only provided to GA dealers (for dealers to replace an
> end-users lost or damaged boot tapes, or to sell with new systems {the
> licensing was in the terminal ports, not the OS}). It was an Account-Save
> format tape of an account called DEALER-SYSGEN. On that account was stored
> the monitor and ABS sections for every different system GA made. A menu ran
> when you logged on to the account and it asked you what system you wanted to
> make an OS load tape for (1700, 1750, 2820, 3820, 3000, 3500, 5500, 7820,
> 8830, etc.), and what tape media you want the tape created on (QIC or 1/2
> mag tape). It then wrote a complete bootable tape with bootstrap, monitor,
> abs, and files sections for any of those systems. What a find!!! Of course,
> I haven't tried to read this tape, perhaps it's got some worthless datafile
> backup from something else on it. But it still has the original GA Zebra
> lable stating it's the dealer sysgen tape and the write protect is on.... so
> I'm hopeful.
>
> I happen to have a GA1750 and a GA2820 in my collection, so I'm thrilled to
> know that I can make new boot tapes for them now. More importantly, I can
> make boot tapes for any other GA Zebra system. Note that this tape is for
> rev 3.8, which was the last non-R91 Pick GA produced (I wasn't a fan of R91,
> so I'm really glad it's the pinnacle of the 3.8 train). I need to see if I
> can find my manual patch sheets that bring it up to 3.8T1.
>
> Anyways, if anyone has GA Zebra's in their collection and needs a new boot
> tape I can help you out. Now I just need to find the DEALER.ASSY account for
> 3.8 :)
>
> Jay West
>
>
>
>
Hi Jay
My Zebra says 2510 on the botton sticker if I remember correctly
has a 8" drive and a Qic Tape. Still Boots pick OS. I have
the same tape you have but did not know how to to use it.
My machine model did not show up on the label of the tape either.
Jerry
Jerry Wright
JLC inc.
g-wright at att.net
