Univac III on Ebay

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Thu Mar 13 01:13:00 2003

On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Jeffrey Sharp wrote:

> On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, Bob Lafleur wrote:
> > I see that the seller backed off his opening price to an even $10,000. And
> > there are still no bids. ... I *hate* to see him scrap it.
>
> If it still ends with no bids, I can arrange a meeting with the seller to
> see the machine, and while there, try to convince him not to scrap it.

He's had it for years now. I doubt he's going to scrap it.

Michael Nadeau brought to attention the fact that the seller was featured
in Chapter 7 of Kevin Stumpf's book on collecting computers. He detailed
the back in 1997 how he tried to buy the machine from the seller but even
had a problem back then.

This guy will hold onto it until someone offers him twice what he thinks
he can get.

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