On Wed, 23 May 2001 10:37:22 -0700 (PDT) Sellam Ismail <foo(a)siconic.com>
writes:
> The seller is a Goodwill picker; a middle-man; at best an
> opportunist; at worst a scoundrel. He's selling direct from a
> Goodwill shelf in a store somewhere, to you.
>
> I think this aspect is important to consider in this case.
You're looking at the glass as half empty. There are at least three
major aspects which you have *not* considered:
1. He came to us, first.
2. Once he found out it was valuable, he didn't take it to E-Bay.
3. Everyone on this list had a fair shot at it.
Opportunist? Maybe-- he got lucky and wanted to ca$h in. Good for
him. Is that such a crime? If you had a way to sell 'lucky breaks',
you'd have folks beating a path to your door.
Scoundrel? Only if he misrepresents himself or the merchandise;
on this forum, it is best to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Alot more than $0.02 but I think it needed saying . . .
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On Wed, 23 May 2001 07:45:00 -0700 (PDT) Sellam Ismail <foo(a)siconic.com>
writes:
> Nigeria is like the scam capital of the world. I have no idea why.
> Lax laws? Government complicity? A weakened sense of morals? :)
Try All of the Above.
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Evening folks,
I just received this evening and it was sent at 7:56pm the Ha Ha Virus
is back! I received it from the list this is the heading:
Subject:
Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - The REAL story!
Date:
Wed, 23 May 2001 22:56:22 -0400 (EDT)
From:
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To:
undisclosed-recipients:
Bill Claussen
elecdata1
at the local salvation army today came across a computer/wordprosser
unit made by Cannon called the Cannon Cat any info on this would be most
grateful
Chris
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>I have a Philips 301 microscope that needs a new home. It is in good running condition. There are a lot of spare parts and consumables to go along with the microscope. The mercury pump has been removed. The microscope is presently up and running but will soon need to be dismantled to free up the room for another microscope. If interested please email me directly.
>Dismantling and shipping will be at the new owner's expense.
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Anyone know about the No Name Computers (NNC) company?
I picked up a 20-slot S-100 mainframe model NNC 100 the other day and
I'm not too sure what to make of it since my only S-100 experience is a
Heath/Zenith Z-100. Did NNC market computer systems, or just the box of
slots?
The box has some boards, which were not seated in the slots. From
lowest to highest slot number they are:
CompuPro INTERFACER 4
CompuPro CPU 8085/88
CompuPro SYSTEM SUPPORT 1
CompuPro RAM20
CompuPro RAM20
CompuPro DISK 1 with 'BOOT CD/M.B' ROM
I assume this machine has enough intelligence to boot a floppy, so a
bootstrap doesn't have to be keyed in. Do you think it has enough
intelligence to differentiate SS/DS and SD/DD drives? I also picked up
some 8" floppies, but none of them say No Name Computers! The various
labels are: Big Board CP/M, WordStar, SuperCalc, Typing Tutor, Easy Flow,
SpellGuard, Vedit, SpellStar, ARC, dBaseII, DataStar, Rainbow BASIC,
Rainbow Pascal, Cromemco CDOS, X-8, Turbo Pascal, SIG-M BigBoard, and Mix
C. Do any of these seem likely candidates to boot this computer?
Any help would be much appreciated!
Edwin
hi, i noticed a message concering four-phase systems
equipment.
i have been looking for four phase cpu's to complete a
system that i am trying to restore.
could the person please e-mail me back my address is
n8uhn(a)yahoo.com.
the photo links do not work as they moved the page but
i would still like to see them.
thankx,Bill (n8uhn(a)yahoo.com)
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On May 23, Carlos Murillo wrote:
> I remember that there were ISA boards with multiple i860's
> offered back then; the idea was to have lots of number-crunching
> power in a PC back then. However, I never saw similar
The MicroWay NumberSmasher/860 comes to mind. Impressive specs,
even by today's standards. I'd love to get my paws on one or more of
those.
> products based on i960. I believe that the i860 was geared
> more towards float processing/embedded control/multi user OS/
> parallel processing architectures and the i960 was strictly for
> embedded control, with emphasis on integer performance.
> You'll find i960's in many HP laser printers.
And many non-HP printers as well. The '960 is also well-suited for
non-embedded applications.
-Dave McGuire
In a message dated 5/23/01 11:26:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
Glenatacme(a)aol.com writes:
<< One of these was in the middle of a big bunch of junk at the shop. Looks
like it's got two 5 MB hard drives inside. A large-diameter cable is
attached; evidently this connects to the "receiver" card in a PC.
This may be distasteful, but I'm thinking of putting it on Ebay. Has anyone
ever seen one of these sell before? If so, for how much???
>>
that must be one of those famous expansion cabinets. Ive been looking for one
myself; I have some parts and cable, but do not have the entire thing.
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I've been lurking, but I pipe up once in a while about the smaller
iron (like PCjrs). I generally withhold my opinion to avoid wasting
bandwidth, but I feel strongly enough about this to want to say
something.
Spotting something in a secondhand store, asking for help here
because you don't know if it is a toaster or a computer, and then
using a this listserv to auction it off is in poor taste.
This wasn't a "Hey, I found a PCjr to PC keyboard adapter, does
anybody need one" kind of question. Somebody made the argument
that given the rarity of the item, it is appropriate to auction
it. Fine. Auction it on E-Pay, and use their bandwidth and
resources. Oh, by the way, it's usually good form to OWN the
item you are auctioning. Post a notice here that the item is
going up on Ebay if it truly is that interesting. This isn't
a "keep it in the family/community" deal, it was more along the
lines of "Can I make a buck, and how hard can I squeeze?"
My vote for the person who should own it is Louis - he was
passionate about it. That's a sign of a good home. ;-)
To those of you who entered the bidding; I hope the seller's
ethics raised some flags in your heads before you made your bids.
I would not buy under these circumstances.
Mike
