Univac III on Ebay

From: Wayne M. Smith <wmsmith_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Thu Mar 13 02:16:00 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.
>
> --
>
> Sellam Ismail Vintage
> Computer Festival

He apparently tried to trade it for an antique car back in '96. See:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=DyHI
n5.ML2%40iglou.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3D%2522univac%2B3%2522%26hl%3
Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26scoring%3Dd%26selm%3DDyHIn5.ML2%
2540iglou.com%26rnum%3D1
Received on Thu Mar 13 2003 - 02:16:00 GMT

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