Sad auction story [exidy sorcerer]

From: Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Tue Aug 15 00:25:08 2000

Jim Battle wrote:
>
> With a sinking stomach, I unscrewed the case to find inside...
> a sheet of 1/2" plywood screwed to the bottom, with no main board.
>
> I'm guessing somebody "tricked out" the case and was using it
> simply as a keyboard to some other project they had.
>
> I emailed back to the seller, and his position was more or less that
> he had told me about the lack of connectors (the power, at least).

This sounds like a good candidate for the Ebay Insurance program. Missing
connectors is not quite the same as a missing mainboard. It doesn't sound
like intentional fraud, but I would most certainly follow up with Ebay.
Received on Tue Aug 15 2000 - 00:25:08 BST

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