1 Jul
2003
1 Jul
'03
12:16 p.m.
I had to laugh at the seller's comment "...Must Sell. Low Reserve."
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3033449003&ca…
y=294
David
1 Jul
1 Jul
6:58 p.m.
I had to laugh at the seller's comment
"...Must Sell. Low Reserve."
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3033449003&ca…
y=294
Agreed, but at least it would take up less space than that Univac :^)
Zane
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2 Jul
2 Jul
2:44 a.m.
I had to laugh at the seller's comment
"...Must Sell. Low Reserve."
Well, to me this looks more like the usual EBay problem with ',' and '.'
Remember, in Europe, the floating point is a comma. So I assume that
guy was just entering 10,00 Dollar, which got converted to 10,000.00
I had this already twice happening and instead of entering 4 Euro 50,
(4,50) I suddenly had 4500 Euros as bid. This part of ebay is quite
faulty.
Gruss
H.
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VCF Europa 5.0 am 01./02. Mai 2004 in Muenchen
http://www.vcfe.org/
3:25 a.m.
Rumor has it that Hans Franke may have mentioned these words:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3033449003&ca…
Well, to me this looks more like the usual EBay problem with ',' and '.'
Remember, in Europe, the floating point is a comma. So I assume that
guy was just entering 10,00 Dollar, which got converted to 10,000.00
I had this already twice happening and instead of entering 4 Euro 50,
(4,50) I suddenly had 4500 Euros as bid. This part of ebay is quite
faulty.
Prolly not in this case, Hans. Notice lower on the page, the guy wants $330
USD just for the *postal insurance* - who'd pay that for a $10 USD computer?
Who's got an extra 10+ kilobucks to start bidding on it to find the
reserve??? :-P ;-)
Prost,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
zmerch(a)30below.com
What do you do when Life gives you lemons,
and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????
I had to laugh
at the seller's comment "...Must Sell. Low Reserve."
3:40 a.m.
Who's got an extra 10+ kilobucks to start bidding
on it to find the
reserve???
It doesn't have a reserve on it.
At 11:18 AM 7/2/03 -0400, you wrote:
Rumor has it that Hans Franke may have mentioned these
words:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3033449003&ca…
Well, to me this looks more like the usual EBay problem with ',' and '.'
Remember, in Europe, the floating point is a comma. So I assume that
guy was just entering 10,00 Dollar, which got converted to 10,000.00
I had this already twice happening and instead of entering 4 Euro 50,
(4,50) I suddenly had 4500 Euros as bid. This part of ebay is quite
faulty.
Prolly not in this case, Hans. Notice lower on the page, the guy wants
$330 USD just for the *postal insurance* - who'd pay that for a $10 USD
computer?
Who's got an extra 10+ kilobucks to start bidding on it to find the
reserve??? :-P ;-)
Prost,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
--
Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
zmerch(a)30below.com
What do you do when Life gives you lemons,
and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????
I had to
laugh at the seller's comment "...Must Sell. Low Reserve."
6:15 a.m.
--- Roger Merchberger <zmerch(a)30below.com> wrote:
Who's got an extra 10+ kilobucks to start bidding
on it to find the
reserve??? :-P ;-)
Maybe in my other pants. :-(
Seriously, though, has anyone ever heard of this machine before? (I
haven't) Besides it coming from a different continent, is there anything
remarkable about it?
-ethan
7:54 a.m.
> Who's got an extra 10+ kilobucks to start
bidding on it to find the
> reserve??? :-P ;-)
Maybe in my other pants. :-(
Seriously, though, has anyone ever heard of this
machine before? (I
haven't) Besides it coming from a different continent, is there anything
remarkable about it?
It's the first in a series of some remarkable Home/Small
Business Computers from Sweden. The 800 for example was
a great baby, includeing hard drives and high res graphic.
Rather rare in middle/southern Europe, but supposed to be
common in the north.
Gruss
H.
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VCF Europa 5.0 am 01./02. Mai 2004 in Muenchen
http://www.vcfe.org/
9:24 p.m.
Hans Franke wrote:
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
I had to laugh
at the seller's comment "...Must Sell. Low Reserve."
Well, to me this looks more like the usual EBay problem with ',' and '.'
9:45 p.m.
seesm suspicious to me that someone from Japan is posting to the australian
Ebay? ?!?!?!?
At 11:19 AM 7/3/03 +0200, you wrote:
Hans Franke wrote:
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
I had to
laugh at the seller's comment "...Must Sell. Low Reserve."
Well, to me this looks more like the usual EBay problem with ',' and '.'
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
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Andreas.Freiherr＠Vishay.com -
David.Kane＠aph.gov.au -
erd_6502＠yahoo.com -
geoffr＠zipcon.net -
Hans.Franke＠mch20.sbs.de -
healyzh＠aracnet.com -
mail.list＠analog-and-digital-solutions.com -
teoz＠neo.rr.com -
zmerch＠30below.com