HP 1000/2000 cache on ePay

[Jay West]

It was written....
> The great news is that Gold Snipper may have "evolved" to the point
> where here he is neither snipping nor parting out some seriously great
> gold equipment.
There's been at least one discussion of GoldSnipper here before. I think his 
prices are unrealistic. However, I am very glad to see him put stuff up for 
sale at least. Not often one sees an FPU available. This is a good thing I'd 
say.

This does bring up a question I've been wondering as to the mindset of a 
scrapper/surplus dealer (in general, not a specific one), perhaps someone 
here can posit an explanation. I've seen a fair number of situations where a 
dealer/scrapper offers an item (not necessarily on ebay) for a price far 
above the going price. You offer them an amount above going prices, and far 
above scrap value... but even that is significantly less than their initial 
price. They refuse, and the item goes to the melting pot. I know for a fact 
that they are getting much less money in the melting pot than I was 
offering. I've seen this more than just once or twice. If I was in their 
position, I'd take double the melting pot money. I don't get it.

> The HP boards of that era were real showpieces.
> I have one board from one of these computers
> ( as with http://gold-snipper.com/ebay/hp21s_6a.jpg ) and it is 
> ridiculously
> over-engineered, IE gilded.
I've mentioned this a time or two before on the list ;)

> Slight bad news that he's set so high a price.  Let's hope some lurkers 
> here
> can affort this.
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8702744737
cpu set includes DMA option, and the terminator board. No telling what 
firmware is installed. Full boat of memory (64k). Appears to be in overall 
very nice condition (GOD I love using that front panel). I'd be concerned 
about the backplane if it's missing the cover (can't tell if it's missing or 
just removed for the picture). Hope someone saves it, but even though it 
looks to be a really nice one, that's a pretty steep price.

Jay West