Re: Plexiglas Apple IIe - Any information about it?

["TopCat" <Len-K@compuserve.com>]

$499 minimum bid and 0 bids.  Why am I not surprized?

Len

Boris Guenter <bguenter@rummelplatz.uni-mannheim.de> wrote in article
<70lb01$qel$1@trumpet.uni-mannheim.de>...
> Suz (redwood@mail.comNOSPAM) wrote:
> : I already asked on this newsgroup about this, but was hoping that
someone
> : might see this new listing and have more definite information.  I have
> : listed it for sale on ebay and there are 4 pretty good pics of it there
at:
> : 
> : http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=37009001
> 
> A transparent Apple II? Cooooool!!!!
> 
> Who has manufactured such a thing?
> 
> Perhaps this was the first attempt of the Sirius Cybernetics marketing
> department to boost the sales of a computer with a good, but not
> outstanding archtecture just by putting it into an ultra-cool
> designer plastic case instead of making the product itself better???
> 
> Of course, we know that Apple would not make such blatant marketing
> errors nowadays!
> 
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> uselessness of them by the sense of
> achievement you get from getting them
> to work at all. In other words:
> their fundamental design flaws are
> completely  hidden  by  their
> superficial design flaws."
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