14 Jun
2013
14 Jun
'13
2:32 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:32:25 -0700
From: "Rick Bensene" <rickb at bensene.com>
This same person is selling the guts from a Sharp COMPET 361 calculator.
What's so special about this? Besides the K@@L NIXIE tubes, this model
featured CORE memory.
"...sold as is but carefully taken out..."
I say people suck++
Arggghhh! This is total sacrilege to an old calculator enthusiast such as
myself.
It hurts to see a machine like this gutted out and sold as a trinket. It
hurts even more because the Compet 361 is a machine I've been looking to
find for the museum for a very long time.
I agree...many people do suck!
Rick Bensene
The Old Calculator Museum
http://oldcalculatormuseum.com
--------- Reply: ---------
--- My query to the seller:
Dear nancytemple202020,
May I ask what happened to the rest of this calculator? Are any other parts
still available as well?
--- Her reply:
I wish there was I would have sold it whole it was sitting for so many year
rust got to alot of it and it was the only board that was very nice and
clean.
- nancytemple202020
So, does she deserve to be insulted for not realizing that a nasty, rusty
piece of junk is worth more to some people than the only nice and clean
board out of it, or should we be grateful that she at least saved that board
and made it available?
S**t happens, life is full of disappointments and people don't always do
what we want them to; get used to it!
Sheesh!