17 Feb
2003
17 Feb
'03
3:47 a.m.
Hey Sellam,
Most of the hikackers on 9/11 were Saudi Arabian
nationals. The Saudis
are the Uncle Tom's of the Arab world.
Is that where you're from?
Best Regards
At 09:23 AM 2/17/03 -0800, you wrote:
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Mail List wrote:
The Navy recently needed some Ariel Hydra Plus
DSP boards and contacted
me about them. They mentioned also searching eBay.
Well, I ended up seeing some at ...
Ariel Hydra VME single board DSP computer
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=162&item=230…
I talked to the seller and he thought he had a thousand dollar reserve
on them. I told him, no, no reserve, just $500 opening bid.
He had made a mistake listing it and ended the auction because of his
mistake.
I couldn't buy them. My buying budget couldn't cover $1000 boards that I
wasn't sure were even going to be the right part ( minor difference in
last digit of part number) and I'm not an extraordinarily strong player.
But I gave the client the seller's phone number, and seems they may have
had possibilities.
Response from client ...
How inspiring.
Yesterday, I unloaded the clean dishes out of the dishwasher and put them
away, then re-filled it with dirty dishes, even though I was really tired,
so my girlfriend wouldn't have to.
Bennett:
Will do. The boards on Ebay do not have the VSB
option that we ideally
require, however these boards still may > be workable.
We are researching
to find out what the slightly different part number denotes. We are still
interested in any additional leads you may be
able to find. Thanks for
your work on this!
I still want to follow up and see if this worked out.
Wish I could have made a little to cover my bills, but didn't seem doable
on this one. But I might have saved you all a lot of money,
and might have solved a
national need.
I put my plastics, papers and metals into the recycle bin instead of the
trash. I saved the environment.
But, might have built up the karma level.
Apparently not enough to avert this sort of reply.
Right now I might see the light at the end of the
tunnel on a project
for the Saudi government. ( They are our allies ).
Most of the hikackers on 9/11 were Saudi Arabian nationals. The Saudis
are the Uncle Tom's of the Arab world.
Also just donated a chassis to Cornell University
...
http://wwwapps.ups.com/etracking/tracking.cgi?TypeOfInquiryNumber=T&Inq…
With chassis, you can't get enough for them to make them worth packaging
and shipping. So my terms were the mailing center had to do it. Plus I
didn't have suitable materials.
I gave a guy a dollar yesterday because he didn't have change and I didn't
have enough in my wallet to break his ten. So I just gave him the buck.
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Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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