18 Aug
2005
18 Aug
'05
12:03 p.m.
eBay Item number 5230383368
From the auction description:
WHEN INSTALLED IN DISK DRIVE PLAYS A SPIKE JONES HIT
WTF????
Any of you HP gurus care to 'splain this to me?
Glen
0/0
18 Aug
18 Aug
10:10 a.m.
At 12:03 PM 8/18/05 -0400, you wrote:
eBay Item number 5230383368
From the auction description:
WHEN INSTALLED IN DISK DRIVE PLAYS A SPIKE JONES HIT
WTF????
Any of you HP gurus care to 'splain this to me?
Kind of sounds like the "music" that you get when a head crashes! I
looks like it too from the looks of the disk in the picture. "Missing Data"
is another hint that this disk is kaupt.
Joe
9:50 p.m.
Yes, Joe is correct. The seller is making some rather amusing sarcastic
jokes to call attention to the fact that the platter is for wallhanging, not
using, so don't try to return it because it's obviously had a fairly severe
head crash - or an encounter with an electric sander ;)
Jay
12:08 p.m.
eBay Item number 5230383368
From the auction description:
WHEN INSTALLED IN DISK DRIVE PLAYS A SPIKE JONES HIT
WTF????
Any of you HP gurus care to 'splain this to me?
Simple. It plays either "Cocktails for Two" or "der Fuerher's
Face"
depending on your national localization and installed options. There's a
Beetlebum switch on the back for controlling the speed, after which you're
off to the races.
No one will probably get any of these jokes.
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12:23 p.m.
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Glen Goodwin wrote:
eBay Item number 5230383368
From the auction description:
WHEN INSTALLED IN DISK DRIVE PLAYS A SPIKE JONES HIT
WTF????
Any of you HP gurus care to 'splain this to me?
Probably just a case os Sellerus Gooferitus.
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19 Aug
19 Aug
3:16 a.m.
New subject: HP 12597 I/O interface on ebay
This may be irrelevant by this time, but wasn't somebody (Jay?) looking for an
HP 8-bit duplex I/O interface a little while ago?
If so, the seller of the Spike Jones 7900 platter has one up for sale:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5230762225&ssPag…
(just in case you didn't see it)
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