Re: Why is this auction so high?

[Wesley Jones <wesjones@gte.net>]

In article <efndb.7182$Rd4.6158@fed1read07>, Scott Alfter
<salfter@salfter.dyndns.org> wrote:

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> In article <PKgdb.442373$Oz4.248347@rwcrnsc54>,
> Vince Briel <vbrielnospamme@comcast.net> wrote:
> >http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2754751507&category=4610
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> >Is it the thermal printer?
> 
> What thermal printer?  It has an Imagewriter bundled with it...a 9-pin
> dot-matrix printer.
> 
> People who don't know better are what's responsible for the high price.  It
> also doesn't hurt that the description uses "vintage" three times to
> describe what sounds like a fairly ordinary system--probably just 128K, the
> 9" "ET" monitor, and the printer, with no goodies like extra memory or a
> hard drive (I could see one of Chinook's SmartPort hard drives getting bid
> up fairly high all by itself).
> 
*snip*

BZZZZT!!!  That's a Scribe, all right. Had one a while back until it
died from neglect. Still have an ImageWriter II and it works just fine.
Easier to get ribbons for, too!

The Scribe's a weird beast. Put a black ribbon in it and it'll print
very nearly like an ImageWriter. Put a color ribbon in it and it'll
print in color a la Imagewriter II when driven by a program that knows
what it is. Take the ribbon out and load thermal paper and it looks
kind of like an old thermal fax machine.

I don't miss mine much. 

Later!
Wes