A440/1 has the right keyboard, those machines had the grey function keys. A310 should have red keys though.retroclinic wrote:Also, those keyboards probably aren't the originals, as I beleive those models should have red function keys.
Why snipe?
As eBay is using proxy bidding, legitimate question is - why snipe at all? If you submit your bid at eBay early, and if your maximum bid is higher than that of a sniping user, you will win regardless. While this fact is true, user experience and even some scientific research conducted says that sniping does pay. Here are some reasons why.
1. Your early bid is an important information for other bidders. This specially applies to rare items, value of which is directly determined by interest. Other bidders may realize true value of an item only after you submit your bid. By bidding early, you are helping them, and that's against your own interest.
2. Bidders tend to be overly optimistic, and therefore enter value lower than what they are really ready to pay. Leave them time to bid again after being outbid, and you will end up paying more, or lose the item you are bidding on.
3. Bidders get excited during auctions, and are often ready to bid way more than what is rational.
4. Ever been victim of shill bidding? It's a fraudulent practice used by some sellers to inflate the price of an item by using another eBay ID to bid on their own item (and retracting bid if they go too far. Be especially careful if bidders' IDs are kept private). If you use sniping, fraudulent sellers have no time to conduct shill bidding.
That first 6.99 days is for advertising purposes only!iomanoid wrote:... have stayed at a static (and low) bid for virtually the entire duration, only to soar astronomically in the last few seconds as all the sniping services cut in and try to out-do each other...
All doable, bar the details. How big is your purse? You tell me what you're looking for, and I'll do my best to build it for you.Greybeard wrote:Actually ... what would really interest me is a box something like that one ... but with "everything" included.
Stuff like:-
1) 5.25" floppy drive
2) 3.5" floppy drive
3) Heavy duty power supply*
4) USB connection(s)
5) Break-in connectors taken from the various ports
6) Anything else I can think of along those lines
That is an Experimenter's Common Interface Box (for the BBC Micro).
RetroClinic's next project, perhaps?
* That is, with multiple outlets of the type found underneath the Beeb.
No ... but it made £ 77 though!iomanoid wrote:(LOL - for a moment I thought you meant it had topped a ton!!)
Yeah, my max bid (or should I say, max snipeGreybeard wrote:No ... but it made £ 77 though!
) was £77.77 and I ended up winning it for £77.56 ... how's that for a "guestimate", eh? Arcadian wrote:Bidders get excited during auctions, and are often ready to bid way more than what is rational.
