Arrrgh!! Piecemeal auction!

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Fri Dec 14 22:56:23 2001

On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Bryan Pope wrote:

>
> People on here have talked about people on eBay taking a perfectly good
> working machine and selling it off piece by piece but this takes the
> capacitor screwdriver, soldering iron and sucker....
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1309283581
>
> This person? is selling 40 little plastic thingies that go under a key on
> the Commodore 128's keyboard along with a spring!!!
>
> Bryan
>
> Excuse while I go bang my head against a wall... Did you know if you do that
> for an hour you burn 150 calories?

That seems low. IIRC, a person sitting and reading - nonexertive - puts
out about 140 BTU/hr. Admittedly, this is from a HVAC class more years
ago than I like to remember.
                                                 - don
Received on Fri Dec 14 2001 - 22:56:23 GMT

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