5 Jul
2005
5 Jul
'05
11:54 p.m.
In message <m1DpanR-000IyPC at p850ug1>
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
YEs, but you don't know how high the winning
bidder was prepared to go
either. He might have gone way higher than you were prepared to pay.
Point taken.
I have had fairly good luck in physical auctions - snagged a near-complete#
Jupiter Ace for ?2. Then I went and knocked the PSU cable and blew up nearly
every chip on the mainboard (Lesson #1: Buy a PSU with interchangeable
connectors, instead of those "spiderplug" things)...
Later.
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