1 Jul
2005
1 Jul
'05
9:55 a.m.
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Bill Sudbrink wrote:
?
Two great
reasons to not mention it:
o The depressed price (now, anyway) makes eBay
look fantastic for a collector, and half the list would have
to vehemently disagree with that conclusion.
o Every last person discovering this listing (except you <g>)
would keep it a secret so as to hold the price down.
Believe me, I considered #2 (above). However:
1) It has been in a banner ad for five days. 2) It has 20 bids on it including a couple of known
ebay "deep pocket"
bidders.
So? It's been shown time and again that some of these deep pockets have
more money than brains, so why should their interest in it be any
indicator of authenticity?
My real question was whether anybody really thought it
was a _1_ and
what the bidding would go to if it was. For the record, I'm pretty
sure that it is NOT an OSI product. The keyboard is not right for OSI.
It has what looks to be holes drilled in a circular arrangement on the
upper right-hand side, probably for a speaker mounted underneath. I've
never, ever, ever seen any Apple-1 with a speaker. There are three knobs
along the left side that look like potentiometers.
I'm sure everyone bidding thinks it's a 1. Otherwise, why the hell would
anyone pay $305 (so far) for an Apple //e unless they're stupid?
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