PDP-11/23

From: jim <jwstephens_at_msm.umr.edu>
Date: Tue Oct 28 14:22:43 2003

> And if you don't have the time or energy to watch eBay then they probably
> don't care either way. eBay has a search tool.

that sucks. it only searchs for full word matches and literal matches.

I think that items that are rare (that is subjective) should be posted here,
especially
if in the poster's opinion, the rest of the list may not find it.

Witness a friend getting an 129 keypunch recently on an auction because it was
an "ibm machine for cards" or such idiocy.

Did you guys spot it and not post it here?

Would you have bid it up a bit over the $50 we have to pay for it?

I doubt that such a find would be posted before the fact, but is interesting to
see what is on the market, how much it is selling for, and to get ideas as to
what to "search" for when looking the the mess that Ebay calls descriptions.

I see the messages for these being maybe 1 out of 20 or even 1 out of 50
on this list, and are easily skipped if you are not interested. And I don't
recall
anyone putting up a junk one when they posted something, unless it was previously
offered to the list to make an offer.

Jim
Received on Tue Oct 28 2003 - 14:22:43 GMT