"Response" from seller with the "Apple-1"

Philip Pemberton philpem at dsl.pipex.com
Tue Jul 5 17:54:56 CDT 2005


In message <m1DpanR-000IyPC at p850ug1>
          ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:

> YEs, but you don't know how high the winning bidder was prepared to go 
> either. He might have gone way higher than you were prepared to pay.

Point taken.
I have had fairly good luck in physical auctions - snagged a near-complete#
Jupiter Ace for £2. Then I went and knocked the PSU cable and blew up nearly
every chip on the mainboard (Lesson #1: Buy a PSU with interchangeable
connectors, instead of those "spiderplug" things)...

Later.
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