30 Dec
2000
30 Dec
'00
6:11 p.m.
Yep! That's what makes the eBay work! Somebody wants it (Heaven, only,
knows why, but they do) so they're bidding.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire(a)neurotica.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 2:39 PM
Subject: Re: It had to happen sometime
On December 29, Marvin wrote:
> I was looking at the Heath Listserver messages and here is the URL of a
> disassembled Heathkit "kit" selling on Ebay. Current price (someone has
too
> much money on their hands) is $103.50. The URL
is:
>
>
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewItem&item=…
2189
>
> The next thing will most likely be similar computer "kits". There was a
> discussion on the Heath listserver about this unit and Chuck Pension
spoke
about this
type of activity being another cottage industry. Anyone
interested in a disassembled Heathkit H-89, or H-11, or ... :).
I thought you had to be smoking crack or something, Marvin; nobody
would actuall *do* something like this...but I just looked at the
auction. It's true.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Why do we have to stop at things that were originally kits? I can
see it now: "DEC PDP-11/34a KIT! L@@K! RARE!!"
Better start buying stock in ChemWik!
-Dave McGuire