Date   : Sun, 25 Apr 2004 13:05:16 +0100
From   : Tim Fardell <tim.fardell@...>
Subject: Re: crazy bids being placed on Beeb auction

"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" wrote:
> Is it possible that someone actually NEEDS a beeb for something?
> Some relic of a system still propping up some critical
> project somewhere?

More likely than you might imagine! 
I know of a Model B that was in daily use on a piece of apparatus until
about a year ago.