(Jerry you are not a terrible person for saying that)
I have similar thoughts. Ebay seller twenex has had this stuff listed for months. It's not new. He's trolling for desperate buyers. I would hardly call this a 'sale'. I've offered him very reasonable prices on several things he listed for crazy amounts and he's refused. I mean $200 for a single tape that will melt as soon as it's run at speed? I don't even mind personally paying him for previously un-archived manuals and media that I would just turn around and send to Al K. or Jason S. for free. But he won't even take a reasonable offer from me when I tell him they are to be archived for the greater public good. And by reasonable.. I have offered him $50 for a SVR 3.2.3.2 (V3) tape and his counter was $150! You can download a 3.2.1 tape image on-line today. 3.2.3.2 would be a nice patch level bonus for those few of us running V3 hardware. He's an eBay troll and nearing the a-hat level of wiredforservice from my experiences with him. Please let us know when he wants to be reasonably compensated for his wares as my check-book remains open. -Alan On 2015-10-28 04:01, jwsmobile wrote: > This is a representative auction by the vendor. Look at all of his stuff for > the whole story. > > VINTAGE-COMPUTER-AT-T-3B2-500-600-1000-UNIX-SYSTEM-16MB-MEMORY-WESTERN-ELECTRIC > > http://www.ebay.com/itm/321811268824 [1] > > The buyer of his Lisp Machine is going to be sad. The vendor has broken off > good to have spares and software for a working machine into separate > auctions. Unlike the 3B2 stuff which is all parts. Not a nice thing to do if > you are asking $9500 for the machine and only a few hundred more for the > spares. Spares such as mice, keyboard, and software restore tapes. Nice. > > Thanks > Jim Links: ------ [1] http://www.ebay.com/itm/321811268824
