> With regards specifically to the auction in
question, the item was listed
> as a "S100 BUS IMSAI ALTAIR Z80 EMULATOR". This item has nothing to do
> with emulating the S-100 bus. That is deceptive.
I agree that the listing is deceptive, poor English
also. I doubt any court
would convict on the listings of the title box alone, they would rely on the
description to decide deception.
But thats exacly why I turned it up - it's a oridinary Z80 ICE.
Usefull for hardware developers, but anything about Altair & co
is just free flowing.
Lets take my gold 8080 for example. (It is over 10
years old so it is on
topic). While I would list it under CPUs my title would say something like
"Beautiful Gold Intel 8080 Microprocessor, Rare!
Still true. Althrough I would laugh a lot, if the
price rises above 10 USD.
'Gold' and 'Intel' for the search
engines. 'Beautiful' to get you to look at
the picture, a nice close-up larger than life size (with size disclaimer). The
quality of the photo is very important. It would be plugged into anti-stat
foam in a clear plastic box. I know some of the list would quibble over the
term 'Rare'. I have no real idea of the rarity. However after working with a
scrapper for years my guess is they 'are' rare.
Jep, rarity is relative - German people are rare on this
world, but still there some 120 millions out there :) Or
to get down to collection, maybe you know this Magic the
Gathering carde game - I was at one time heavy involved
and played all the time - this was in the very early stage
and I have seven 'Black Lotus' cards. At one time the price
was above USD 1000 (thats a grand) for one of this pices of
paper - but I still use them for playing - more fun (ok, to
be honest, I sold two of them - I couldnt resist, but acording
to the rules only one is alowed within a game). What I want
to tell ist that rarity has more parts - shure, I know these
cards are rare, they are even rare within my munch of some
100K cards, but I have plenty.
My intended market, obviously is the jewelry collector
or someone interested
in gold items, not a computer collector. Old gold electronics are very
attractive.
PFUI!
The unfortunate part of this is that poor English is
becoming more acceptable.
The Internet and it's use of keywords only contributes to this.
I swear I'll try to improve.
Gruss
H.
P.S.: And don't mis that he stood up onto the list.
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK