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From: kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,misc.forsale
Subject: Re: DOS-73 board and software for sale
Message-ID: <794@kosman.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jun 89 02:33:17 GMT
References: <789@kosman.UUCP>
Reply-To: kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman)
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Organization: K.O.'s Manor - Vital Computer Systems, Oxnard, CA 93035
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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.