humorous descriptions of ebay item

From: Tom Uban <uban_at_ubanproductions.com>
Date: Thu Aug 23 14:05:16 2001

At 11:30 AM 8/23/01 -0700, you wrote:
>>If you cycle the pictures with the little arrow at the right and then
>>pick the photo of the two RK05s... I'm guessing that the seller is not
>>the person who carefully stored this system over the years.
>
>OK, by looking at the page source I see what you're talking about. It
>looks like the first one is labled by as a PDP-8/i :^) One problem I see
>is that you're seeing a different web page than I am. Stinking Javescript!
>I guess I should be thankful that I can see the pics.

Yes, there are a number errors in the picture labels. Why are you
seeing a different page? Aren't we both looking at this one?

http://www.fibraplex.com/PDP8/ultimate_pdp.htm

Or is your browser lacking in capability?

>Still it's a very nice system.

I never said it wasn't a nice system. I would take it if: a) money was
no object, b) I had room to set it up, and c) it wasn't so far away (see
(a))

--tom

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