nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) (03/16/90)
In article <27796@cup.portal.com>, Justin_Randall_Padawer@cup writes: >Paying $25 plus your shipping for used, working 400K Mac drives. If you'd >like to trade the antiques for cash, email us. In article <27795@cup.portal.com>, Justin_Randall_Padawer@cup writes: >I have used Apple-label 400K external drives for sale. These are the >older ones (400K vs. 800K) but work perfectly. Let me know if interested. >Fire Sale: $50. Might I humbly suggest that any persons wanting to buy/sell the 400K floppy drives talk directly and same themselves the $25 fee by nipping across the street to the appropriate newsgroup? Is this what's called "free enterprise?" Nick. -- Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk <Atlantic Ocean>!mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ A prop? ...or wings? A prop? ...or wings? A prop?
ianf@nada.kth.se (Ian Feldman) (03/17/90)
In article <2883@castle.ed.ac.uk> nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes: > In article <27796@cup.portal.com>, Justin_Randall_Padawer@cup writes: >> Paying $25 plus your shipping for used, working 400K Mac drives. If you'd >> like to trade the antiques for cash, email us. > > In article <27795@cup.portal.com>, Justin_Randall_Padawer@cup writes: >> I have used Apple-label 400K external drives for sale. These are the >> older ones (400K vs. 800K) but work perfectly. Let me know if interested. >> Fire Sale: $50. > > Might I humbly suggest that any persons wanting to buy/sell the 400K > floppy drives talk directly and same themselves the $25 fee by nipping > across the street to the appropriate newsgroup? > > Is this what's called "free enterprise?" No, it is called capitalism; buying cheap and selling dear and let the buyer beware. Alas, rather than asking rhetoric questions you should have pointed out that this kind of semi-business activity (buying & selling en gros) _certainly_ is not what the net is for. In fact, every site that has received these ought to calculate and send a bill for the cost of reception and storage of this J.R [sic!] Padawer's obviously commercial postings to the `cup.portal.com' site administrator. After all, if he insists on using the Net for his own private enterprize then maybe we ought to teach him a basic lesson of capital optimization and cost accounting. On the other hand, we _are_ dealing with a "J.R." type of person, so maybe he just taught us a lesson ;-) --Ian Feldman / ianf@nada.kth.se || uunet!nada.kth.se!ianf / "There, Watson! / Obviously he is not the ImageWriter hacker we were looking for"
Justin_Randall_Padawer@cup.portal.com (03/18/90)
For goodness sakes. :) I'm a hobbyist who modifies the 400k drives for use with AMAX Mac emulators on the Amiga. I've sold two at $40 in 6 mos. If that makes me a capitalist, well, then I am a capitalist. Computers are fun. I don't suppose 400k drives will make me rich, though.