Yeah sorry I had the ebay thread open in another tab and posted in the wrong one :p

DonutKing wrote:

Yeah sorry I had the ebay thread open in another tab and posted in the wrong one :p

Not a big deal i just thought it was funny! 🤣

Tried to explain to the seller that this is a run of the mill 80386DX clone that happens to have a bunch of irrelevant PABX cards in it. No response of course. Some people do live in "lalaland". 🤣
http://cgi.ebay.com/321269891310

^ but it the RARE turbo computers! 😮 and another auction has a card that is different for 700$ ! a true bargain! 😮 😮 😮

OMG! The most rare of rare turbo computers!

In the world of Silicon Graphics it's not out of the ordinary to see some surplus outlet trying to price by brand (and by piece).

http://cgi.ebay.com/390456648054

You gotta love how this one has been stripped of anything that wasn't screwed down.

http://cgi.ebay.com/360805737667
Huh, the Turbo Graphics option is missing from that board. Where did it end up??
http://cgi.ebay.com/281219363410
Oh, there's half of it...
http://cgi.ebay.com/350946388729
Ah, there's the rest of it.

I'm glad I got into these machines and amassed enough spare parts a decade ago.

PeterLI wrote:

Tried to explain to the seller that this is a run of the mill 80386DX clone that happens to have a bunch of irrelevant PABX cards in it. No response of course. Some people do live in "lalaland". 🤣
http://cgi.ebay.com/321269891310

It's a piece of commercial equipment designed for a specific purpose, that's why the high price. Someone who NEEDS that piece of equipment will pay the money. We may know that it is just a run of the mill 386 PC with a few specialty cards installed, but the buyer probably won't.

The chances of someone looking for that specific item are very slim. Especially since the seller probably has no idea what they have so they cannot market it properly. 😊

Anyone looking for a boxed, sealed version of Unreal? Check out item 111208339477

I think the seller forgot a dot two numbers in 🤣

sliderider wrote:

PeterLI wrote:

Tried to explain to the seller that this is a run of the mill 80386DX clone that happens to have a bunch of irrelevant PABX cards in it. No response of course. Some people do live in "lalaland". 🤣
http://cgi.ebay.com/321269891310

It's a piece of commercial equipment designed for a specific purpose, that's why the high price. Someone who NEEDS that piece of equipment will pay the money. We may know that it is just a run of the mill 386 PC with a few specialty cards installed, but the buyer probably won't.

I have a question it says starting bid $550 - 0 bids
if there is zero bids who bid $550 ?

Went down $150! Buy it while you can folks! http://cgi.ebay.com/321276973453

looking through this thread, I have to think these people are laundering money.

PeterLI wrote:

Went down $150! Buy it while you can folks! http://cgi.ebay.com/321276973453

🤣

The description is so funny:

This is an IBM AT/2 Personal System i386 Vintage Computer. This is a very tall server computer. IT IS ALSO THE RAREST HIGHLY DE […]
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This is an IBM AT/2 Personal System i386 Vintage Computer. This is a very tall server computer. IT IS ALSO
THE RAREST HIGHLY DEMANDED TURBO COMPUTERS! This is because as you can see it also has the
big turbo button in front. This machine was the predecessor to modern day asterisk voip telephony. It was the first computers to develop this technology and was used by the father of the origional inverter of this modern day asterisks telephony. It has 5 very rare Fredrick engineering UDACS Transciever PCB # 001022 cards stacked inside and all but one pci buss is empty all 5 are taken by these rare cards. The computer is in excellent working

order. The computer has a 6th card that is a little smaller than the other 5. It is loaded with 7 extended

memory ram cards with 4 blank ram slots remaining. I have a few extra ram cards like these and will

list them in a seperate auction. I believe each card is a 32MB ram card.

Another ebay seller is asking $700 for just one of the cards in this machine with the model number

PCB 001022. However it is a completely different looking card than are in this unit but has the same model

number. Not sure why. This computer has a hard drive, 2 floppy drives one 5.5" and one 3.5". The hard drive

has the softwhere to run the transcever card stack...

Softwhere? IT HAS A TURBO BUTTON!!! SO IT IS THE RAREST HIGHLY DEMANDED TURBO COMPUTERS!

I find it funny that this guy is trying to appeal retro computing collectors but thinks he knows more about the subject than potential buyers...

This one is crazy too..

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-LS486e-rev-f- … =item3cda088bb7

486 motherboard for 1k 😀

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Vintage-LS486e-rev … da263005&_uhb=1

Says NIB but opens it to take pictures...

Robin4 wrote:

This one is crazy too..

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-LS486e-rev-f- … =item3cda088bb7

I have a couple of those. Although not boxed, i should try and ask 500€ for both of them... 🤣

Maybe not quite so outrageous as others but this board whenever I see it re-listed makes me wonder as I can't think of a much worse motherboard then this (at least it comes with a decent amount of ram though)
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/PC-Chips-370-and-S … M-/261358043040

And then in the auction there's this line:

This unit will suit those wishing to set up a vintage DOS-Windows PC using more recent ATX Power Supply and PS2 or USB Keyboard/mice.

I mean we all really want to build vintage DOS PCs that essentially only have 1 expansion slot!

And while this auction isn't retro at if separated the prices are not bad but I cannot work out who could possibly be the audience of this auction with this price!
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/1-400-PCs-500-LCDs-/111151180910

$33 per computer. I'd would have to be someone who can see profit in selling each computer individually.

And he talks about being on palettes and ready to export, yet local pickup only 🤣