Date   : Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:49:38 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: eBay... sigh

On 29/08/2011 14:34, Mark McDougall wrote:

> Some genius selling a BBC plugged it in, and when it went 'pop' after 30s
> and black smoke came out, decided to cut the power cord off!!!

Maybe it is a liability thing? If there's no power cord, and you fit one 
and the machine blows up in your face, your fault...


Obviously the guy isn't familiar with Beebs. But that said, I came 
across a listing for an A3000 once. Guy plugged it in, moaned how it had 
some weird connector (no, it's not a 15 pin VGA!). When he eventually 
found a picture on his old telly, "it starts saying RISC OS, whatever 
the hell that is". I think he figured it was some obscure sort of Atari 
of the Falcon genre - being that it was listed *there* and not under Acorn!

Really... are people too stupid to try asking Google? Or seeing if it is 
described on Wiki? <sigh>


Best wishes,

Rick.

-- 
Rick Murray, eeePC901 & ADSL WiFI'd into it, all ETLAs!
BBC B: DNFS, 2 x 5.25" floppies, EPROM prog, Acorn TTX
E01S FileStore, A3000/A5000/RiscPC/various PCs/blahblah...