kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman) (06/19/89)
I have been using a DOS-73 board for about 3 years now to do MS-DOS development on my UNIX-PC. I now have a 286 on order, due in 5 days, so I will not be needing this any more. Asking price is pretty flexible -- see below. You can surely have this for $500(US). It has given good and faithful service during this time, so I'm hoping to find it a good home. All docs and original software disks included. This is a fairly fast co-processor for the AT&T UNIX PC, with 500KB (non-expandable) ram on-board, and MS-DOS 3.1 (probably also not upgradable), but does NOT include "backup" and "restore". PRN is faked into the UNIX printer, spooled or not at your option. There is a real COM1 port on the back of the board. So you can run real communications software, or a serial printer, or whatnot. This board was designed by a team that included a friend of mine, while AT&T still had hopes for the UNIX PC product. It was indended to answer the complaint that people could not run LOTUS 1-2-3 on their desktop if they went with the AT&T solution. So it runs LOTUS (some version or other; as it happens I never got around to using LOTUS). The board interfaces to the UNIX PC screen as if there were a Hercules graphics card (monochrome) in an IBM. I will take the best offer. I hardly expect more than $500 (about half the original cost) so I will take that like a flash. Feel free to enter the auction with any price at all. I promise to accept your offer unless I get a better offer within 14 days, except that $500 takes it immediately. Of course, offers under $500 pay the freight -- about $20.00 if I send it Federal Express. So go ahead and offer me $1.00 if you think you might maybe like to have a ~$21 MS-DOS machine. Honestly, if that's the best I get, I will ship it for that, and let my tax accountant figure out the bleeding investment credit recapture. If you're in California, I'm sorry, but I've gotta collect sales tax. I'm a licensed business and I'm actually law-abiding no matter what the current trends are. Sales tax does not apply to the shipping charge, so a buck is only $1.06. Hmm, forget that, I'll be a sport and if the tax is less than .50 I'll eat it (yes it's legal). Beware, having this board might just addict you to comp.sys.ibm.pc, as I have been finding out to my horror. Somehow, while I just had the co- processor I never subscribed. Now that I'm expecting the "real thing" I have been, and have been discovering that there's a lot of neat stuff out there for these machines, and quite a bit of it runs on the board. Speak to me -- I would like to unload.
kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman) (06/22/89)
In article <789@kosman.UUCP>, I write: >I have been using a DOS-73 board for about 3 years now to do MS-DOS >development on my UNIX-PC. I now have a 286 on order, due in 5 days, >so I will not be needing this any more. There have been several bids. Some of the bidders have wanted to know if they're in the running. I don't think it's fair to tell only some of the bidders, but I think many folks on the net would object to my running an auction on news, even with a 'usa' distribution, so I'm not going to do that. So if you have bid on this, be aware that I have tried to respond by e-mail, with mixed results, to all bidders. If you haven't gotten an acknowledgement of your bid in a couple of days, try again. I will retry one time with another form of address for each bounced message, after that I will give up. If you're the high bidder and I don't have your phone number, and e-mail bounces, I will go to the next in line, because I can't get ahold of you. With all that said, I'm wondering why there aren't guidelines for doing this stuff on the net: we have guidelines for nearly everything else. Too nearly commercial, maybe? Anyway, the high bid right now stands at $301.00. That's right, an odd dollar figure. I will not post again, but as the situation warrants, I will mail the current high bid to all bidders of I know of. I did not expect this to be so complicated. I will reserve the right to ignore small differences in bids: round to $20.00, say, and to resolve ties by a lottery, and to make such other determinations as I think fair. I'm expecting my new machine around Friday, and won't pack up the DOS board till it comes. Thanks for the interest.