4 Jun
2003
4 Jun
'03
9:08 a.m.
Ethan Dicks wrote:
--- Patrick Rigney <patrick(a)evocative.com>
wrote:
The current bid is $500,700 (way above the buy-it-now price it
originally had), so your bid of 25K is far short of the goal.
But it still has about 24 hours to go, so get your bid in now.
Or maybe you could bid on that Univac (one vacuum?) instead.
It comes with a trailer.
Yeah, and it seems a good bit, if not all, of the electronics were
long-removed. So it's an expensive polished sphere.
I'm sure I could outfit a nice machine shop and hire some Russians
to *make* me a replica for a lot less than the current bid price. :-)
Oh well, my wife would succumb to spontaneous
combustion if UPS dropped
Sputnik on the porch, anyway. Patrick :-)
If I had $25K to blow and I dropped it on _that_ instead of something
interesting, like an Antarctic Total Eclipse Cruise (23-Nov-2003),
I'd be in similar straits.