HP 2xxx stuff

From: Craig Smith <ip500_at_roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Fri Feb 25 22:35:22 2000

Thanks for the kind words Bill. I just joined the list recently
to expand my knowledge and newly acquired interest in computers. Built
up a pretty good "instant collection" of semi-early HP stuff. My wife is
giving me a really hard time about another hobby and more "junk".
        Regards, Craig

William Donzelli wrote:
>
> > The owner is in Roanoke, Va. He's been selling^H^H^H^H^H^H^H listing a
> > lot of HP stuff on E-bay. Most of it he knows nothing about and claims
> > that it "appears to work". After some discussion with him, I found that
> > "appears to work" means that the fan comes on but nothing else does! So
> > watch out. Based on my conversations with him, I don't think he's
> > interested in selling anything off of E-bay, unless maybe after it got no
> > bids. He's listed a couple of HP 1000s, a HP 9825 and a HP 9845 that I
> > know of.
>
> Craig Smith is a decent guy - but computers are not his thing (_old_
> radios are). Please, folks, not everyone that lists old computers on Ebay is
> part of the "6800 assembler coding"* crowd. Don't slam them too
> hard...they are just being honest with what they know.
>
> *Think back to an ancient thread.
>
> William Donzelli
> aw288_at_osfn.org
Received on Fri Feb 25 2000 - 22:35:22 GMT