On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 at 21:11, Glen Slick via cctalk
wrote:
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> Shirley this thread has run its course already
I just wanted to tell you, good luck. We're all counting on you.
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Bob,
It is a joke from the Airplane movie. Shirley you jest! I told you
not to call me Shirley! Shirley is substituted for surely.
GOD Bless and Thanks,
rich!
On 3/26/2021 4:08 PM, Robert Harrison via cctalk wrote:
Who is Shirley? Yes, it surely has run its course.
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Rob
Who is Shirley? Yes, it surely has run its course.
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Robert Harrison
b...@tds.net
> On Mar 26, 2021, at 4:11 PM, Glen Slick via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> Shirley this thread has run its course already
On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 6:22 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
> "UNTESTED" used to mean that it hadn't been tried out.
> Now, it means that the technician was unable to repair it.
And 'TESTED' does not mean 'working'. If I power up a hard drive and
it sounds like a cat fed backwards through a law
My offer is $0.01, but only if you pay shipping. Hard to believe you actually
got a serious offer. HaHa
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> On Mar 26, 2021, at 2:56 PM, Richard Pope via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> Ali,
>You are probably correct but it was just something that i hav
On 2021-03-25 15:15, 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 gladly sell my brand new, still in the static bag, RZ28's for
> that pri
Shirley this thread has run its course already
At 12:41 PM 3/26/2021, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
>Q: what does "FURBISH" mean?
M-W says "to make lustrous" and "to give a new look to."
"Refurbish" is "to brighten or freshen up."
At Dell Outlet, for example, I think they call a computer "refurbished" even
if it never left the warehouse - for
Supply and demand. As the number of units remaining drops, the price goes
up. This, for example, is clearly his last piece of "blanc" paper:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Blanc-sheet-of-paper-04/254895244594 (or maybe
it's French paper ...) :-)
The ordinary paper that consumers use throughout the
Antonio,
Wow! About $30 for one sheet of paper. Is gold woven into it?
GOD Bless and Thanks,
rich!
On 3/26/2021 4:15 AM, Antonio Carlini via cctalk wrote:
On 26/03/2021 08:36, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote:
The seller is also describing it as "refurbished", one of these days
I am going to as
Ali,
You are probably correct but it was just something that i have done
in the past to get a HDD working by combining two to make one. Just my
two cents. Anyone want to buy a used, I believe it stills works, ANTIQUE
and COLLECTABLE 100MB SCSI 1 HDD for say $1,000,000 OBO?
GOD Bless and Th
> "UNTESTED" used to mean that it hadn't been tried out.
> Now, it means that the technician was unable to repair it.
>
Not quite. It generally means we know it is broken/nonworking but we want
wiggle room when you complain!
-Ali
Q: what does "FURBISH" mean?
On Fri, 26 Mar 2021, Guy N. via cctalk wrote:
According to the OED: 1) Remove the rust from, burnish, polish up (a
sword, armour, etc.); 2) Clean up, renovate, revive, give a new look to
(something dirty, faded, or old).
I think "give a new look to" is what some of
On Fri, 2021-03-26 at 10:41 -0700, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> Q: what does "FURBISH" mean?
According to the OED: 1) Remove the rust from, burnish, polish up (a
sword, armour, etc.); 2) Clean up, renovate, revive, give a new look to
(something dirty, faded, or old).
I think "give a new look to
For HDDs, "refurbished" probably means FORMAT'ed.
In the old days, it sometimes meant a LOW-level format.
SSTOR ("Speed-Store") and SPINRITE (Gibson's) "REFURBISHED" drives.
For other things, it probably means plug it in and see if the power
indicator comes on.
Maybe even wipe it off with a da
> -Original Message-
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> Sent: 26 March 2021 15:14
> To: 'Richard Pope' ; 'General Discussion: On-Topic
> and Off-Topic Posts'
> Subject: RE: Hard To Believe This Person Is Serious
>
> > Rob,
>
> Rob,
> Could it be that they get identical drives that don't work. Some
> of
> the drives have bad platters or heads and other drives have bad
> interface cards but the platters and heads are ok. So they take the
> good
> cards and put them on the drives with the good platters and heads and
On 3/26/21 4:44 AM, Richard Pope via cctalk wrote:
Rob,
Could it be that they get identical drives that don't work. Some of
the drives have bad platters or heads and other drives have bad
interface cards but the platters and heads are ok. So they take the good
cards and put them on the dr
On 26/03/2021 10:30, Pete Turnbull via cctalk wrote:
On 26/03/2021 09:15, Antonio Carlini via cctalk wrote:
This, for example, is clearly his last piece of "blanc" paper:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Blanc-sheet-of-paper-04/254895244594 (or
maybe it's French paper ...) :-)
Possibly a test post
On 26/03/2021 09:15, Antonio Carlini via cctalk wrote:
This, for example, is clearly his last piece of "blanc" paper:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Blanc-sheet-of-paper-04/254895244594 (or
maybe it's French paper ...) :-)
Possibly a test post to check how the system works. Years ago, eBay had
a
On 26/03/2021 08:36, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote:
The seller is also describing it as "refurbished", one of these days I am going
to ask one of these sellers what refurbishment they do.
I'm planning to put the lid back on the RZ26, carefully pull back the
label I had to destroy to get to the
On 26/03/2021 08:24, Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote:
Assuming anything gets shipped at all. Perhaps they don't want to take
money
from anybody too local who might cause them some grief.
Well eBay will want the seller to make a refund if the buyer complains,
and location doesn't make any differe
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> Subject: Re: Hard To Believe This Person Is Serious
>
> 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 thing
ch 2021 08:02
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On Fri, 26 Mar 2021, Guy Dunphy wrote:
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 que
> From: cctalk On Behalf Of Christian Corti
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> Subject: Re: Hard To Believe This Person Is Serious
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> On Fri, 26 Mar 2021, Guy Dunphy wrote:
> > At 05:45 PM 25/03/2
On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 09:02:20AM +0100, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> Why is the price marked in GBP and why doesn't he ship to Germany?
Assuming anything gets shipped at all. Perhaps they don't want to take money
from anybody too local who might cause them some grief.
I note they a
On Fri, 26 Mar 2021, Guy Dunphy wrote:
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.
The better questions are:
Why is the price marked in GBP and why doesn't he ship to
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
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
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
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
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.
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
>
>
>
>
:On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
>
> Subject: Re: Hard To Believe This Person Is Serious
>
> 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,
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
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
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
Rofl,
If he manages to find someone at that price, I will have to sell my
micropolis 5"25
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Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2021 6:46 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Hard To Believe This Pe
> 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
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