20 Nov
2002
20 Nov
'02
4:07 a.m.
At 11:23 PM 11/19/02 -0800, you wrote:
And, it is an enjoyable sport to "get lucky"
(=perserverance and clever searches) to find things
others didn't find, and get them at a good price. Even
People who don't like eBay might not like free
market
economics, either - although this may be flamebait,
and I do loathe eBay, the company, and its new, even
Why I like ebay is that often the NEAT thing I find I really don't want to
keep, and selling it allows me to speculatively buy more stuff.
Neat thing I found today is a DaynaFile, an external SCSI device with both
a 360k and 1.2 MB floppies. Not that rare, but this one was real clean,
alas like all others before it, no freaking power supply. Hopefully
something generic 5 pin din will work (I know the connector is normal, a
keyboard plugs in fine, I mean a power supply).