dwight elvey wrote: <snip> If they are ebay store holders they can insert the listings much cheaper than individual people can, so they can insert the silly pricing to find a fish that doesn't know they are getting raped, but rather just switched off Antiques Roadshow and think that computers is the next big thing. Some are psychos, and don't take kindly to comments on their listings either. I can't see any other reason for it. And it clutters the searches for good listings. I usually search by useful vendor, which has had good listings in the past, and for a few items I keep canned searches for, and don't browse anymore, unless someone here points to a good auction. That is why I appreciate all your comments on what is on Ebay, as a lot of knowlegeable people here looking beats any of us looking on our owns both by catching good listings, and by not looking at a lot of crap. BTW the latest tips I jumped on was the note on Paper tape some time back, and an offlist pointer to IBM 026 (and 029 and 129) ribbons. They were really nice to find. They fit not only the keypunches, but flexowriters and other such older machines. Jim

The price on ebay is only representative of market prices if an item sells. What an item is listed for is not a market price, but an asking price and lots of people ask too much. Furthermore, I don't consider an auction with only 1 bidder to have a representative price. Mutiple bids an multiple bidders and we're starting to talk a market price, but with one bidder you have no idea if its an idiot buyer or just a bargain. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>

On May 17, 2007, at 11:51 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: Ok, I wasn't sure whether switches 5-8 were for the memory on the board, or the memory on the planar, and that every one of the boards I already have are set up with bogus switch configurations (like, on off on on on off on off, and off on on on on on off off). No wonder I was confused. Then it follows that for 64 KB on the planar and 192 KB on the card, it'd go on on on off off off on off. Right? And then I set the switches on the planar as if it were a 256 KB 5150 (SW1 x x off off x x x x / SW2 on off off on on off off off). I've got four or five of them with varying degrees of memory installed, so there's another datapoint for you. Thanks, Chuck. For now, I discovered I had one TECMAR All-In-One card with 192 KB which was already set up correctly in another 64 KB 5150 (which has some problems with its floppy disk drives) so I borrowed the card. I'll give it a shot with your settings and see what happens. Some of my DRAM chips may be bad. This is all in an effort to IPL my 5364 S/36 PC for the first time, FWIW. ok bear