Hello,
--- On Wed, 11/24/10, Jeff Walther <[email protected]> wrote:
>A few hours after the auction, the winning bidder had the gall to
>spam me about his online store which was full of MO drives
>all priced for several hundred dollars each. So the guy
>outbids me and then tries to sell me the item in question for thirty times
>>what I bid on it.
I'm guessing this was quite a while ago. Fairly recently, (2008-ish? Anyone?)
eBay took it upon themselves to conceal bidders' identities. I sort-of
understand why they did so, (one reason was to prevent exactly the type of
off-channel buffoonery you encountered) but I also can't help but feel that
they took a lot of the fun out of bidding by taking that step (not to mention
enabling shill bidding like never before :/).
If you were a collector of, say, hand-painted hairnets, a lot of fun (and
useful information) could be had by trading messages back and forth with the
folks you were bidding against (and beat/were beaten by). Ah, the Good Old
Days...
> The IWII can sell for a nice chunk of money if it includes a working Cut
> >Sheet Feeder.
Actually, you could make a decent chunk of change (prob'ly enough to cover a
Happy Meal, anyway) merely by showing up on my doorstep with an IWII and
running the self-test page until I start crying and beg you to stop. :)
I don't know how many people on the list had to cope with IWII's back when dot
matrix printers were par for the course, but somehow, the noise of a dot matrix
tediously grinding away is -not- something I find myself getting nostalgic
about. ¬_¬
(YMMV, of course.)
Anyhow, IIRC, wasn't the cut sheet feeder prone to jamming? I'm dredging the
hoary vaults of memory here, but I believe I messed with one a few times
way-back-when, and the game just didn't seem worth the candle. Although, to be
fair, I always had an unhappy penchant for printing out hard copies mere
minutes before I desperately needed them, so just about -any- delay in the
output was maddening. :)
> I, of course, have an IWII with the Cut Sheet Feeder, the
> LocalTalk Option, and the MicroSpot MacPalette II extension (print
> driver) that allows the four color ribbon to dither millions of
> colors. I think I use it about once a year.
I have to ask: what application calls for such a setup on an annual basis?
[scratches head]
(You don't have to tell me if you don't want to, but I am curious.)
>Nevertheless, I have spares for the major circuit boards and the print >head
>sequestered in the attic for that day when it fails to power up and >print
>right.
I'm guessing you acquired all this stuff quite some time ago, as I can't
imagine how long it's been since Apple was offering spares for the IWII. @_@
Frankly, in a strange way, I'm faintly envious, although it probably has more
to do with the simple fact that you (unlike me) still possess enough -room- to
keep arcane spares around rather than the fact that you've got spare circuit
boards and print heads for a dot matrix printer on hand in the year 2010. ^_^
Best,
James Fraser
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