DOn't do it. If they are not omnibus extenders they will have ground planes
attached to the wrong pins.
--Chuck
(Who did this on a Unibus extender and now has a "quad" unibus extender
card :-( and no Omnibus card)
At 10:18 AM 10/18/99 -0400, you wrote:
>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 - 23:37:25 BST