Sad auction story [exidy sorcerer]

From: Jim Battle <frustum_at_pacbell.net>
Date: Wed Aug 16 10:57:19 2000

At 06:49 AM 8/16/00 -0700, you wrote:
>On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Passer, Michael wrote:
>
>...
>Why would a piece of plywood be inside? To make it weigh the same as a
>real Sorcerer? Pure speculation but maybe the stupid seller was duped
>into buying this a time ago at a flea market, and now feels justified in
>scamming the next guy?
...

I think the original keyboard connector was removed and replaced with
another cable that led out of the box, but that cable was cut at some
point. I think the plywood was simply to give the box weight so that
when it was used as a "cool" keyboard, it wouldn't shift around on
the desk it was on.

Finally, I really do think the seller doesn't know a lot about computers.
Looking at the other stuff he was selling, computers weren't his
specialty. I think he had suspicions about its condition but was
willfully ignorant (it takes about 3 minutes to unscrew 5 screws or so
to peek inside). He made *far* more off of it than he was expecting,
and is reluctant to give up any of this undeserved windfall.

-----
Jim Battle == frustum_at_pacbell.net
Received on Wed Aug 16 2000 - 10:57:19 BST