At 18:22 06/03/2003, you wrote:
>$11,099.99 was less than the reserve? What on EARTH was the reserve???
>Also, who has that kind of money for a hobby - knowing that it will require
>tremendous effort to bring the system back to life?
That's if it *can* be brought back to life. It may have been kept under
cover, but it's not had a storage life without suffering (judging by the
front of the cabinets).
>It seems to me that the seller either wasn't serious about selling - or is
>quite greedy (the latter, I think).
I personally think the latter - the whole auction seems to have been set up
not to be seriously winnable (72hrs only for payment? Massive reserve?
Buyer to arrange *entire* shipping?). I suspect his "better half" has said
"sell it", and he's had what (on the surface) looks like a good crack at it.
IMHO, if he was serious about selling it, he'd be auctioning it through a
"proper" auction house (ala Christies), and be looking for $100K minimum.
It is, after all, possibly the oldest surviving large electronic computer
on the planet...
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Received on Thu Mar 06 2003 - 13:25:01 GMT