2 Jul
2003
2 Jul
'03
11:19 p.m.
Why? geographically japan and australia are pretty close.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Reed" <geoffr(a)zipcon.net>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 5:41 AM
Subject: Re: I thought the Univac was expensive
seesm suspicious to me that someone from Japan is
posting to the
australian
Ebay? ?!?!?!?
At 11:19 AM 7/3/03 +0200, you wrote:
=294
Hans Franke wrote:
>>I had to laugh at the seller's comment "...Must Sell. Low Reserve."
>
>>http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3033449003&category
>>
>>Well, to me this looks more like the usual EBay problem with ',' and
'.'
>
>Seller's location is listed as "Tokyo", so we can safely assume
he's
>familiar with the comma as the thousands separator. (Is there no Japanese
>section of eBay, BTW?)
>
>I seem to remember having heard about the machine, there were many
>different 8-bitters of this kind at this time. The Exidy Sorcerer, for
>example, might be about the same time frame, maybe slightly later.
>Commodore PET is probably better known and also belongs to the late 70s.
>If you struggle to collect each and every kind, you may need a Luxor
ABC80
>too, but certainly not for that price!
>
>--
>Andreas Freiherr
>Vishay Semiconductor GmbH, Heilbronn, Germany
>http://www.vishay.com