From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey) Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 11:39:43 +0930 Subject: [TUHS] Original 9 track tape of Unix 7th edition from Bell Laboratories. In-Reply-To: <4311F30D.2030703@peacemax.org> References: <4311F30D.2030703@peacemax.org> Message-ID: <20050829020943.GK5861@wantadilla.lemis.com> On Sunday, 28 August 2005 at 11:23:25 -0600, James Falknor wrote: > To all concerned, > I discovered this little gem up for auction on E-Bay. > One of the stickers state that it is Seventh Edition from Bell Labs > I have placed a small bid on it ($5.00 US). That's your maximum, right? I see $2.25. > Advice required: > 1. Would it be worth continuing to bid on? Possibly. It's a pity it's not confirmed to be readable. In any case, the rule for eBay bidding is to wait until the very last minute (literally a minute or two before the auction closes) and to know what your maximum bid is. Specify it and you'll only pay enough to outbid anybody else (if possible). > 2. What should my highest bid be? I'd be inclined to go to about $20 or so, but that's my feeling. > 3. Would TUHS be interested in the tape if I should win it? I don't > have a tape machine or computer for such tape. I'm surprised that Warren said no here. It's possible that some of the code might be different; it would certainly be worth comparing. Greg -- Finger grog at lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available URL: