Re: eBay WTH?

[wood@futility.com]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:03:23 -0700, Charlie Springer
<RAM@regnirps.com> wrote:

>On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:34:00 -0700, a2aviator@gmail.com wrote
>(in article 
><032ff845-a6eb-4be3-8936-7531730c34de@w39g2000prb.googlegroups.com>):
>
>> ...OTOH, I do have something that I can turn the NIB world upside down
>> with..
>
>OK, give!
>
>I'll go first. I have a NIB Apple //e Enhanced or whatever with the numeric 
>keypad keyboard. It has been opened, but just to make sure it is OK. Even the 
>box looks new.
>
>Oh. I have a perfect NIB National NS3200 32 bit processor development kit I 
>picked up at Fry's in about 1985. It includes a memory manager chip, floating 
>pint coprocessor, and four ROMs with the monitor firmware. I should wire-wrap 
>this thing up some time.
>
> Also a NIB Dysan 3.25" Floppy with diskettes. They were floppies like the 
>5.25" style. I had a knack for picking things destined for obscurity.
>
>-- Charlie Springer
>
>P.S. This reminds me that the Apple II listings on eBay have been shrinking 
>except for tons of games. Also, prices have gone down except for real 
>rarities and the never ending lust for accelerators.
>
Those things are too useful to fetch the high, high prices. You need
something useless to get a bundle.

I suggest (now keep this under your hats) selling the single 16 x 1
memory chip that was removed to install the language card in the
original Apple ][. The one I have is gold plated on the legs and made
by Intel. Why the gold alone must be worth a couple of mil (mil as in
fractional part of a penny.)