[sebhc] printer driver

Barry Watzman Watzman at neo.rr.com
Fri Feb 25 07:25:59 CST 2005


Well, fwiw, the drives in the H-17 are generic 5.25" drives, so some $1 flea
market drives will work, as will a pair of half height drives.  I know it's
not historically accurate, but it's functional.  The real problem is getting
diskettes.


-----Original Message-----
From: sebhc at sebhc.org [mailto:sebhc at sebhc.org] On Behalf Of H.E. Robert,
[Just Bob!]
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 1:36 AM
To: sebhc at sebhc.org
Subject: Re: [sebhc] printer driver

Well, I guess it comes down to the parts are worth more than the whole!
I remember in the '70's, a Renault LeCar sold for around $5K, put to 
build one
from parts was around $250K!!  It makes sense for the seller to sell the
drives separate from the CPU, but honestly, I don't believe removal of the
boards would detract from the final bid on the H-8, as much as they could
add to the bids on the H-17 drives? ...
....but then again anybody with an H-8 looking for drives, probably already
has the controller right?  So to follow the logic (expressed below), if 
the seller
removed the boards, they would break the chain, and some poor 
unfortunate soul
(like myself), would end up with an H-8, and no controller, and any 
other chance
at drives would also be controller-less, (assuming I lost this H-17 
auction),
and I would never be able to complete a working system, unless someone
 on the list, felt sorry for me!  Now I'm really depressed!!!

Okay, on a brighter note, did anybody see what a 33ASR just went for?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5167154458
US $1,420.00!   What's up with that???  I learned that lesson early on, 
.....
never mix large quantities of Red Wine and ebay!  It is insanity
wrapped in amnesia, an expensive lesson, to be sure!  Trust me!

Just Bob!

Lee Hart wrote:

>Barry Watzman wrote:
>  
>
>>I tried to get him to put the H8 and H17 together, but other people
>>urged him not to.  Take it up with him, it's not my auction.
>>    
>>
>
>Strange, isn't it? It's like selling left and right shoes separately.
>
>Then again... did any of you ever watch the british sitcom "The Fall and
>Rise of Reginald Perrin"? He was a middle-management executive who was
>going nowhere in his career by trying to succeed. So he decided to try
>to fail -- and succeeded instead!
>
>In one episode he goes to work for "The Grot Shop" -- basically a thrift
>store. They have hundreds of pairs of shoes that nobody wants. Reggie
>decides to sell shoes "each" instead of as pairs, and is flooded with
>eager business from one-legged people who are delighted that they
>finally can buy just one shoe!
>
>Maybe the guy figures he can make more money selling two halves of a
>computer than one whole one!
>  
>


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