Re: Hard To Believe This Person Is Serious

2021-03-25 Thread Brent Hilpert via cctalk
On 2021-Mar-25, at 5:21 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: > Well, if there is no cost to asking that amount, why not? It's an > inefficiency of Ebay that things can stay up there for years, but that is as > it is. It's been enough years I don't remember when I first saw it, this has been listed

Re: Hard To Believe This Person Is Serious

2021-03-25 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 3/25/21 5:27 PM, Richard Pope wrote: Bill,     How much is the guy asking and for what? GOD Bless and Thanks, rich! On 3/25/2021 2:15 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: On 3/25/21 1:56 PM, mazzinia--- via cctalk wrote: Rofl, If he manages to find someone at that price, I will have to s

Re: Hard To Believe This Person Is Serious

2021-03-25 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
Well, if there is no cost to asking that amount, why not? It's an inefficiency of Ebay that things can stay up there for years, but that is as it is. On 3/25/2021 7:16 PM, Richard Pope via cctalk wrote: Guy,     Agreed. Well by their thinking I should be able to get $1,000 for my IBM 100MB S

Re: Hard To Believe This Person Is Serious

2021-03-25 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 3/25/21 4:16 PM, Richard Pope via cctalk wrote: > Guy, >     Agreed. Well by their thinking I should be able to get $1,000 for my > IBM 100MB SCSI drive from the 1990s. This isn't unusual. Commercial mission-critical parts often go for huge markups. If the maintenance spec for a given piece

Re: Hard To Believe This Person Is Serious

2021-03-25 Thread Richard Pope via cctalk
Guy, Agreed. Well by their thinking I should be able to get $1,000 for my IBM 100MB SCSI drive from the 1990s. GOD Bless and Thanks, rich! On 3/25/2021 5:16 PM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote: At 05:45 PM 25/03/2021 -, you wrote: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/313467585213 Seller is German.

Re: Hard To Believe This Person Is Serious

2021-03-25 Thread Charles Dickman via cctalk
At least it is a physical item and not a two pixel tiff called "black and white", offered as an NFT for £1M. On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 1:45 PM Rob Jarratt via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/313467585213 > > > >

RE: Hard To Believe This Person Is Serious

2021-03-25 Thread Rob Jarratt via cctalk
It's a 240MB SCSI hard disk, they are asking about £1,600 which is probably more than $2,000. > -Original Message- > From: cctalk On Behalf Of Richard Pope via > cctalk > Sent: 25 March 2021 21:28 > To: Bill Gunshannon ; gene...@ezwind.net; > discuss...@ezwind.net:On-Topic and Off-Topic

Re: Hard To Believe This Person Is Serious

2021-03-25 Thread Guy Dunphy via cctalk
At 05:45 PM 25/03/2021 -, you wrote: >https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/313467585213 Seller is German. Of course they are serious. The real question is whether they are sane. Guy

Re: Hard To Believe This Person Is Serious

2021-03-25 Thread Richard Pope via cctalk
Bill, How much is the guy asking and for what? GOD Bless and Thanks, rich! On 3/25/2021 2:15 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: On 3/25/21 1:56 PM, mazzinia--- via cctalk wrote: Rofl, If he manages to find someone at that price, I will have to sell my micropolis 5"25 I would glad

Re: Hard To Believe This Person Is Serious

2021-03-25 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 3/25/21 1:56 PM, mazzinia--- via cctalk wrote: Rofl, If he manages to find someone at that price, I will have to sell my micropolis 5"25 I would gladly sell my brand new, still in the static bag, RZ28's for that price. bill

RE: Hard To Believe This Person Is Serious

2021-03-25 Thread mazzinia--- via cctalk
Rofl, If he manages to find someone at that price, I will have to sell my micropolis 5"25 -Original Message- From: cctalk On Behalf Of Rob Jarratt via cctalk Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2021 6:46 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Hard To Believe This Pe

RE: Hard To Believe This Person Is Serious

2021-03-25 Thread Ali via cctalk
> https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/313467585213 He is not. They actually don't have any real stock. They list a ridiculous price hoping they can find the item (or know of someone who has stock) and drop ship it. This guy probably has a lead on the item given the short shipping time. The difference betwe

Hard To Believe This Person Is Serious

2021-03-25 Thread Rob Jarratt via cctalk
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/313467585213

Re: MaxSpeed VGA MaxStation

2021-03-25 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
ISTR there were a few DOS-only video cards that had VGA outputs, but only did text mode for point of sale applications. I never used any of these myself, though... Warner On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 1:46 AM John Ames wrote: > Hah, wow. > > On 3/25/21, Warner Losh wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at

Re: MaxSpeed VGA MaxStation

2021-03-25 Thread John Ames via cctalk
Hah, wow. On 3/25/21, Warner Losh wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 1:01 AM John Ames via cctech > > wrote: > >> Huh - wacky. Still pretty curious how it works just on a basic "how >> the hey does the framebuffer even function" level, but that's >> certainly interesting. Does make me feel less gu

Re: MaxSpeed VGA MaxStation

2021-03-25 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 1:01 AM John Ames via cctech wrote: > Huh - wacky. Still pretty curious how it works just on a basic "how > the hey does the framebuffer even function" level, but that's > certainly interesting. Does make me feel less guilty about planning to > cannibalize it for a homebre

Re: MaxSpeed VGA MaxStation

2021-03-25 Thread John Ames via cctalk
Huh - wacky. Still pretty curious how it works just on a basic "how the hey does the framebuffer even function" level, but that's certainly interesting. Does make me feel less guilty about planning to cannibalize it for a homebrew project later, though! On 3/24/21, Camiel Vanderhoeven wrote: > It

Re: MaxSpeed VGA MaxStation

2021-03-25 Thread Camiel Vanderhoeven via cctalk
It's neither X nor ethernet. These worked with a special controller card that had 4 RJ45 connectors. That allowed four users to share a single Windows NT system. From: cctech on behalf of John Ames via cctech Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2021 4:41 AM To: cctalk ;

Re: MaxSpeed VGA MaxStation

2021-03-25 Thread Camiel Vanderhoeven via cctalk
It's been ages since I saw there, but it was definitely graphics; maximum cable length was pretty limited; 12 feet or so. IIRC, the video signal itself was carried over three pairs of wires. Fourth pair of wires was used for bidirectional communications (keyboard, mouse, printer, DAC management)