I got two quad (looks to be originals for the 11) PDP extender cards for
$21.50! I had to get up at 1 in the morning to nail it. If the spacing is
the same on either side of the middle "slot" then I guess I just have to cut
them down the middle for the PDP 8? Sorry "flipchip".
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=179610883
The guy had it listed under "Photo Electronics" with no PDP nor Digital in
the subject/description.
john
-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Christopher Finney <af-list_at_wfi-inc.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Monday, October 18, 1999 3:03 AM
Subject: Re: EBaying; howling after an auction
>
>
>On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Dave McGuire wrote:
>
>> >Sniping is the art of ignorance on the value of something.
>>
>> Huh? No, man. Sniping is a means to an end. Nothing more, nothing
less.
>> Not entirely "nice", not entirely what the eBay designers had in mind,
but
>> extremely effective.
>
>I'd have to agree with Marvin. You don't bid early on something because
>you don't want to attract attention to something that might be mis-labeled
>or poorly described. If other people don't know what it is, and the
>bidding price stays low, you bid in the last 5 seconds and get it for much
>less that you would have had a bunch of people been after it.
>
>Myself, I go on eBinges. I might spend a couple of days pouring over ads
>for stuff that I've been looking for for a long time. Sometimes I buy
>things just to buy them; once I bought an IBM thermal printer for $.25 and
>paid $5.00 shipping for it. Recently I got an IBM Fortran manual for a
>buck or so, and the guy just sent it without payment. What else...oh yeah,
>I picked up a SCSI adapter for an Atari ST for $1.00, because the guy had
>it listed only as "SCI Adapter"...total fluke, because I myself misspelled
>"scsi" in the search...
>
>I'm certainly no power user of eBay (shallow pockets, too lazy to ship
>things), but I find that their format drives me to "snipe" things, but I
>look at it, as Marvin said, as a Sealed Auction way to buy. People who try
>to be *fair* about bidding there, when their system doesn't cater to the
>kind of fairness that allows everyone to have their turn to bid until
>the last call, just end up frustrated and disappointed.
>
>My .02,
>
>
>Aaron
>
>
>
Received on Mon Oct 18 1999 - 09:18:01 BST