Why? geographically japan and australia are pretty close.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Reed" <geoffr_at_zipcon.net>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 5:41 AM
Subject: Re: I thought the Univac was expensive
> 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 - 06:19:00 BST