27 Oct
2003
27 Oct
'03
1:16 a.m.
Hey, I just got a random email from someone that's selling one of these
over in the UK. As that's a bit far for me, and the machine looks like
it's in awesome shape, I though I'd send the info to the list incase
someone on the other side of the pond was interested. The seller claims
it "was never used", and it looks fairly well loaded. I've got no
affiliation to the seller, just passing this on.
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Their message:
Hi,
Just to let you know that we are selling a Digital DEC PDP 11/23 machine
on eBay and we thought you may be interested. ?If you would like to have
a look, please click on the following:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2568418690
Many Thanks for your time,
Richard J. Brain
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Pat
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27 Oct
27 Oct
12:23 p.m.
I hate when morons like this spam me in such a manner. It's also a
violation of eBay's rules (not like they'd do anything about it though).
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
Hey, I just got a random email from someone that's
selling one of these
over in the UK. As that's a bit far for me, and the machine looks like
it's in awesome shape, I though I'd send the info to the list incase
someone on the other side of the pond was interested. The seller claims
it "was never used", and it looks fairly well loaded. I've got no
affiliation to the seller, just passing this on.
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Their message:
Hi,
Just to let you know that we are selling a Digital DEC PDP 11/23 machine
on eBay and we thought you may be interested. ?If you would like to have
a look, please click on the following:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2568418690
Many Thanks for your time,
Richard J. Brain
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Pat
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5:44 p.m.
Vintage Computer Festival declared on Monday 27 October 2003 09:23 pm:
I hate when morons like this spam me in such a manner.
It's also a
violation of eBay's rules (not like they'd do anything about it
though).
Yeah, I know what you mean, it annoys me when people send me information
about things I'm interested in... perhaps I just have a lower level of
this than you do. I'm sorry if I offended you, Sellam, but this looked
like a decent person trying to sell something, the start bid is about 1
Pound. There are people on this list that don't have the time or energy
to watch eBay (on which there *are* good deals to be had at times) and I
figured I'd let people know that this was out there.
So, do you also 'hate the morons that spam you' to offer you something for
your collection, or just the ones that have the items up for public sale?
(I understand you have "some adversions" to eBay, but it DOES help some
people.... me, for instance.)
-- Pat
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> Hey, I just got a random email from someone that's selling one of
> these over in the UK. As that's a bit far for me, and the machine
> looks like it's in awesome shape, I though I'd send the info to the
> list incase someone on the other side of the pond was interested.
> The seller claims it "was never used", and it looks fairly well
> loaded. I've got no affiliation to the seller, just passing this on.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>--- Their message:
>
> Hi,
>
> Just to let you know that we are selling a Digital DEC PDP 11/23
> machine on eBay and we thought you may be interested. ?If you would
> like to have a look, please click on the following:
>
> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2568418690
>
> Many Thanks for your time,
> Richard J. Brain
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>---
>
> Pat
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Research Computing and Storage
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28 Oct
28 Oct
2:32 a.m.
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
Vintage Computer Festival declared on Monday 27
October 2003 09:23 pm:
I hate when people take what I say as a personal attack against them.
If someone wants to sell something to me, they can offer it to me
directly. If someone just wants to let me know of their stupid eBay
auction, I consider that spam. See the difference? I don't come knocking
on your door telling you that I'm having a garage sale.
And if you don't have the time or energy to watch eBay then they probably
don't care either way. eBay has a search tool.
And it's a violation of eBay's rules (not like they'd do anything about it
though).
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I hate when morons like this spam me in such a
manner. It's also a
violation of eBay's rules (not like they'd do anything about it
though).
Yeah, I know what you mean, it annoys me when people send me information
about things I'm interested in... perhaps I just have a lower level of
this than you do. I'm sorry if I offended you, Sellam, but this looked
like a decent person trying to sell something, the start bid is about 1
Pound. There are people on this list that don't have the time or energy
to watch eBay (on which there *are* good deals to be had at times) and I
figured I'd let people know that this was out there.
So, do you also 'hate the morons that spam you' to offer you something for
your collection, or just the ones that have the items up for public sale?
(I understand you have "some adversions" to eBay, but it DOES help some
people.... me, for instance.) 
6:22 a.m.
And if you don't have the time or energy to watch
eBay then they probably
don't care either way. eBay has a search tool.
that sucks. it only searchs for full word matches and literal matches.
I think that items that are rare (that is subjective) should be posted here,
especially
if in the poster's opinion, the rest of the list may not find it.
Witness a friend getting an 129 keypunch recently on an auction because it was
an "ibm machine for cards" or such idiocy.
Did you guys spot it and not post it here?
Would you have bid it up a bit over the $50 we have to pay for it?
I doubt that such a find would be posted before the fact, but is interesting to
see what is on the market, how much it is selling for, and to get ideas as to
what to "search" for when looking the the mess that Ebay calls descriptions.
I see the messages for these being maybe 1 out of 20 or even 1 out of 50
on this list, and are easily skipped if you are not interested. And I don't
recall
anyone putting up a junk one when they posted something, unless it was previously
offered to the list to make an offer.
Jim
2:50 p.m.
And if you
don't have the time or energy to watch eBay then they
probably don't care either way. eBay has a search tool.
that sucks. it only searchs for full word matches and
literal matches.
4:12 p.m.
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, jim wrote:
Or use the Vintage Computer Marketplace since it's superior to eBay in too
many ways to mention and is also tailored specifically for computer
collectors.
Spread the word. Tell all the people you buy vintage stuff from on eBay
to use the VCM instead.
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And if you
don't have the time or energy to watch eBay then they probably
don't care either way. eBay has a search tool.
that sucks. it only searchs for full word matches and literal matches.
I think that items that are rare (that is subjective) should be posted
here, especially if in the poster's opinion, the rest of the list may
not find it. 
9:04 p.m.
Guys, enough already...
Although these postings sometimes obviously have a darker motive
to them, they don't happen too frequently. Sometimes they suck,
and sometimes they indeed served a reasonable purpose.
Much more time and energy is spent here on quibbling about it.
Can we terminate this thread, please?
--f
5:30 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Patrick Finnegan
Sent: 27 October 2003 15:17
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: PDP-11/23
Hey, I just got a random email from someone that's selling one of these
over in the UK. As that's a bit far for me, and the machine looks like
it's in awesome shape, I though I'd send the info to the list incase
someone on the other side of the pond was interested. The seller claims
it "was never used", and it looks fairly well loaded. I've got no
affiliation to the seller, just passing this on.
An unused 11/23? Nice! Pity I can't afford the price it's ultimately going
to end up at :)
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