On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Mail List wrote:
> The Navy recently needed some Ariel Hydra Plus DSP boards and contacted
> me about them. They mentioned also searching eBay.
>
> Well, I ended up seeing some at ...
>
> Ariel Hydra VME single board DSP computer
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=162&item=2302043683
>
> I talked to the seller and he thought he had a thousand dollar reserve
> on them. I told him, no, no reserve, just $500 opening bid.
>
> He had made a mistake listing it and ended the auction because of his
> mistake.
>
> I couldn't buy them. My buying budget couldn't cover $1000 boards that I
> wasn't sure were even going to be the right part ( minor difference in
> last digit of part number) and I'm not an extraordinarily strong player.
>
> But I gave the client the seller's phone number, and seems they may have
> had possibilities.
>
> Response from client ...
>
> > Bennett:
>
> > Will do. The boards on Ebay do not have the VSB option that we ideally
> require, however these boards still may > be workable. We are researching
> to find out what the slightly different part number denotes. We are still
> > interested in any additional leads you may be able to find. Thanks for
> your work on this!
>
> I still want to follow up and see if this worked out.
>
> Wish I could have made a little to cover my bills, but didn't seem doable
> on this one.
How inspiring.
Yesterday, I unloaded the clean dishes out of the dishwasher and put them
away, then re-filled it with dirty dishes, even though I was really tired,
so my girlfriend wouldn't have to.
> But I might have saved you all a lot of money, and might have solved a
> national need.
I put my plastics, papers and metals into the recycle bin instead of the
trash. I saved the environment.
> But, might have built up the karma level.
Apparently not enough to avert this sort of reply.
> Right now I might see the light at the end of the tunnel on a project
> for the Saudi government. ( They are our allies ).
Most of the hikackers on 9/11 were Saudi Arabian nationals. The Saudis
are the Uncle Tom's of the Arab world.
> Also just donated a chassis to Cornell University ...
>
> http://wwwapps.ups.com/etracking/tracking.cgi?TypeOfInquiryNumber=T&InquiryNumber=1Z2378230350228079
>
> With chassis, you can't get enough for them to make them worth packaging
> and shipping. So my terms were the mailing center had to do it. Plus I
> didn't have suitable materials.
I gave a guy a dollar yesterday because he didn't have change and I didn't
have enough in my wallet to break his ten. So I just gave him the buck.
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