You have of course offered up negative feedback on him? --Chuck At 09:58 AM 6/7/99 -0700, you wrote: any of

I have been seriously beating the bushes looking for better sources of computers, and I have found some interesting (and totally stinking) places (and yes I will have them on my list I promised to those who sent me their own bargain spots). IBM model 85, 90, and 95, and I am sure of at least a couple of them being 9595 models. Other than one or two items missing on the front, and a taped on name tag, these are excellent looking systems apparently fresh out of some firms server room. If you want one, email me NOW. I will be making my purchase no later than Wednesday morning, maybe Tuesday, and I won't be stocking up, just filling orders. These units look very nice, but I will NOT be able to test or inventory the contents. Some have missing plates in the front, I suspect anything obvious like a CDROM drive has been removed. I don't think PS2 specific items would be removed sinced this looks like all the PS2's the place had on half a dozen pallets (along with a mix of typical 486 machines). I noticed several tape drives, but the nature of this purchase does not allow being too fussy. My zip code is 92869 for estimating shipping costs, and I will do reasonable packing at no additional cost. All bids are for the unit with shipping addtiional. Don't reply to the whole list, email me directly <mailto:mikeford@netwiz.net?subject=PS2buy> I don't know much about a PS2, except several people told me to grab one of these if I ever saw one, so I can't answer any sort of techy question, and most likely won't have time to answer much of anything prior to the purchase anyway. My plan is to walk in and buy systems for as many people that want one as I can. I will then email those people, and ship after payment is recieved. If I like the price I will buy even more units, but those are for ugly profits on eBay. How much and for what? Tell me what you want, and what price (without shipping, which will require packed weights), ie model 9595 $5. Whatever is the lowest acceptable price for a given model is what everybody will pay, and which specific machine you get will be strictly by the order they come off the pallet, and the order I receive your emails. I will use my normal markup to calculate what my actual offer to the vendor will be, and that markup and the actual purchase cost will determine which offers get a system. Huh? Lets just look at the one model, the 9595. Assume I get offers of $5, $25, $65, and $500 per system. The vendor and I agree to a price, and I apply my normal markup resulting in a price of $60. The lowest acceptable bid is $65, so I would buy four units. The first off the pallet is mine, the second goes to an order already placed, and the remaining units would go in order of the bids received until the supply runs out for $65 and shipping. What I need now Email me directly with your bids. I can handle slightly complex things, like; I want (2) 9595 if I can get them for $49 each, just one if its $59. Plus an 8590 if I can get one for $20, etc. etc. There are a fair number of computers, ie 5 pallets, but the number of any specific model I am not sure of. Desktop models as well as servers, and not all are IBM, many are compaq or misc third parties. Don't tell me, I want a blank if it has a blank card, cause I am not going to be able to open and check them. If you don't feel comfortable buying under the conditions I will be operating under, don't bid, wait for the eBay units. Everybody keep your fingers crossed that somebody doesn't beat me to them. Sorry for the long post

Tony asks: There are two answers: 1) it isn't, but the seller deliberately wants Altair/IMSAI searches to find the HP 1000. 2) This HP 1000, like the Altair and (most) IMSAIs, has 16 (or more) lights & switches on the front panel. BTW, it isn't just the HP 1000...the same seller is listing a Nicolet with the same misleading (or accurate, depending upon your viewpoint) comparison: Altair/IMSAI-like Nicolett computer http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=114499874 SS

Computers in the 'lab or machine shop' catagory are likely to be a lot more interesting than a IMSAI or Altair. I can think of a couple in that catagory I'd much rather have. I think you're right, you're missing something. What does 'collector value' have to do with this hobby? The proper assessment of an items value is how much enjoyment you get out of it, or how useful it is to you. As for the person listing the above. I note a couple things, one is that it's pretty easy to tell if a computer is S-100 based. Two, is feedback kind of sucks. Actually the guy's e-mail sounds familiar. Hasn't he pulled simular BS on eBay before? Zane | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Adminstrator | | healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | Linux Enthusiast | | healyzh(a)holonet.net (alternate) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |

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