Re: Hey check out this auction !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sheercon@earthlink.net]

Labelas Enoreth wrote:
> 
> They also seem to have, in a seperate auction, a 'Lisa 1 prototype'...no
> picture of course. I wonder...
> Oh, and they also have some sort of Apple computer I've never heard of
> (they're saying perhaps it is the only one)
> Here is the info on it, anyone have any input? Seems strange to me, but
> then with no picture one can have no idea of what it is...not that I'd pay
> $1500 for it, much less the gargantuan price I'm sure it will fetch once
> all the eBayers dive onto it.
> 
> APPLE GLM (great little machine)very rare
> 
>      GLM..GREAT LITTLE MACHINE. A MOST RARE EARLY APPLE PROTOTYPE WHICH
>      WAS NEVER RELEASED.CONSISTS OF A MOTHERBOARD,WITH ASSORTED CARDS
>      ATTACHED ON A WOODEN STAND,WITH AN OLD SCREEN WITH NO COVER. THIS
>      MIGHT BE THE ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD. WE HAVE HEARD OF NO
>      OTHER.CORRECT eMAIL computrjones@saber.net
> 
> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=151521052
> 
> Has anyone else ever heard of this "Apple GLM"? Was that perhaps a
> codename for one of the early Apple IIs?
> It's strange. If you look at their auctions, it's like tons of mundane
> stuff and then the odd high-priced rare item. Nothing in between. And they
> have such low feedback for having so many auctions...It's like book, book,
> book, disk, cd, RARE PROTOTYPE FOR OODLES OF MONEY!!!, book, cd, old
> software, old floppy drive, RARE PROTOTYPE FOR OODLES OF MONEY!!!
> 
> Hmmmmm. Plus people who type in all caps on eBay and use rare more than
> once in an item description should be placed in a sack and beaten with
> reeds...but that's just my opinion.

I actually live near the sellers and wrote them email asking if I could
take a look at the Apple I before I bid, they never responded however. 
-- 
In the 1960s you needed the power of two C64s to get a
rocket to the moon. Now you need a machine which is a vast
number of times more powerful just to run the most popular GUI.