I thought the Univac was expensive

From: Geoff Reed <geoffr_at_zipcon.net>
Date: Thu Jul 3 04:45:00 2003

seesm suspicious to me that someone from Japan is posting to the australian
Ebay? ?!?!?!?


At 11:19 AM 7/3/03 +0200, you wrote:
>Hans Franke wrote:
>>>I had to laugh at the seller's comment "...Must Sell. Low Reserve."
>>
>>>http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3033449003&category=294
>>
>>Well, to me this looks more like the usual EBay problem with ',' and '.'
>
>Seller's location is listed as "Tokyo", so we can safely assume he's
>familiar with the comma as the thousands separator. (Is there no Japanese
>section of eBay, BTW?)
>
>I seem to remember having heard about the machine, there were many
>different 8-bitters of this kind at this time. The Exidy Sorcerer, for
>example, might be about the same time frame, maybe slightly later.
>Commodore PET is probably better known and also belongs to the late 70s.
>If you struggle to collect each and every kind, you may need a Luxor ABC80
>too, but certainly not for that price!
>
>--
>Andreas Freiherr
>Vishay Semiconductor GmbH, Heilbronn, Germany
>http://www.vishay.com
Received on Thu Jul 03 2003 - 04:45:00 BST

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