Trade (door-stop) C128 for
GramPa.
This is what ya get!
C128 with JiffyDos and power supply.
5-1541 disk drives. one as dv11
2-Magnavox 40-80 column color monitors.
1 Magnavox 40 color monitor
Star NX 1001 printer with G-Wiz interface.
Sears SR2000 printer
All system books, system software and cables.
any old mountain bike will do, a wal-Mart or K-Mart brand will be fine. Im not
looking for a new one but a Bike in good condition used. 18 speed or better.
E-Mail me here or call 775-673-6696 no out of area calls with no number on
caller ID (system will junk out the message).
Im in the Reno,Nv. area
Richard Atkinson
> Trade for a Mountain Bike
> This is what ya get!
Has it not occurred to you that asking for a mountain bike in exchange for
that C128 bundle is too much?
Repeated advertising is called spam and the 'regulars' here will get more
and more annoyed.
Terminator
annoying NOW! Grampa do us all a favor and stop posting this
stupendous ad (who would trade a bike for an old computer?)
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GramPa.
TRADED!! It is not setup as a Question and answer area. If ya dont loke my post
go else-where.
GramPa.
John Pinson
Hi Grampa,
Ack! "AOL told me" is like saying look everyone I have 3 eyes and blue
skin. This isn't an AOL message base. What the guy was trying to say is
that people are getting irritated seeing the post about you selling your
equipment again, and again, and again. Obviously it isn't working. (the
sell or trade). There are some good sites on the web that are
specifically for swapping things and it might be a good place to try to
arrange a deal there. At least it would allow the other folks in
comp.sys.cbm some time to "cool off" from your attempts to barter your
old Commodore hardware.
Now as you know, I like to do a little swapping here and there also.
And I have posted some things up for sale here in the newsgroup myself.
But I try to keep things at a minimum, maybe post one message to the
group that covers a wide range of things that I wish to sell. If
someone is looking for something... they'll come right over and check it
out. If they aren't interested, they'll go on. But I don't post the
message that I have something to sell day after day after day... until
half of the people in the group are bitching and sending me hate mail.
You have some decent stuff, and you can sell it. But it requires a bit
of work, and some patients (sp) on your part. You could use one of the
online auction houses (free ones even) and auction the stuff off, and GO
to Wal-Mart and buy a brand new mountain bike from ol Sam with the
proceeds. But your gonna have to break up the system, and you'll have
to ship the items. What I don't understand is WHY are you limiting
yourself to potential buyers that can ONLY come pick up the stuff. That
cuts out about 99.8% of the people on this newsgroup. Which means that
you are writing your ads without much chance of anything but negative
reaction. And the only purpose of continuing in like fashion is to get
into arguments from the more vocal people who are not happy with seeing
something for sale, from the same person, over and over and over.
And please understand, that to most of the rest of the internet, which
by far is much larger than your service provider, consider AOL and
anyone that subscribes to that service is akin to the puss in a popped
zit.
J. Robertson
>AOL HAS TOLD ME THAT THIS MESSAGE BASE IS FOR COMMODORE ITEMS TO BE SOLD OR
>TRADED!! It is not setup as a Question and answer area. If ya dont loke my post
>go else-where.
Um, I think the problem may be that this isn't an AOL message base...
otherwise us non-AOL people wouldn't be able to access it. Also, this
isn't a marketplace message base or marketplace newsgroup either, it's
a technical discussion group which is part of the "Usenet".
Jason
> GramPa.
Nate / DAC
<IMG SRC="^^NastyGram" ALT="[Rant Mode Begin]">
> AOL HAS TOLD ME THAT THIS MESSAGE BASE IS FOR COMMODORE ITEMS TO BE SOLD OR
> TRADED!!!
Sorry Grampa, this is a discussion forum, not a marketplace or an AOL message
base, and as far as I know, that's what the Usenet charter says. We don't give
a flying you-know-what about what AOL thinks this Usenet Newsgroup is.
Furthermore, stop yelling (all caps).
> It is not setup as a Question and answer area. If ya dont loke my post go
> else-where.
Go elsewhere? Who don't YOU go elsewhere, the rest of us were here long before
you. Just do what someone else has already said - sell your items at auction,
be willing to ship an item at a time, and just go buy your precious mountain
bike.
Otherwise, try to follow some common etiquette and stop posting and re-posting
your ads over and over.
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Richard Atkinson
> AOL HAS TOLD ME THAT THIS MESSAGE BASE IS FOR COMMODORE ITEMS TO BE SOLD OR
> TRADED!! It is not setup as a Question and answer area. If ya dont loke my post
> go else-where.
Then that is AOL's mistake. Believe it or not, AOL does not own the
internet; it is merely an ISP. (well technically it's an OSP but no AOL
subscriber will understand the difference)
You are wrong about the purpose of comp.sys.cbm. It is for general
Commodore-related discussion. One-off advertisements for Commodore items
are tolerated but they are not strictly on-topic. Repeated advertisements
for the same thing are spam and should not be posted.
I'll make this simple for the AOL subscribers: Stop posting repeated
advertisements here. Tell your sysadmins to change their entry for the
purpose for comp.sys.cbm.
GramPa.
>Date: Mon, Jul 10, 2000 12:06 EDT
>How about you try to sell/swap your gear in your local classifieds?.
>If you're not prepared to ship, you have about a snowflakes chance in hell
>of getting rid of your junk here.
Thanks Mate for the reply. I kind of thought thats what commodore was now
"JUNK".
Any way all Im looking for is a Mountain Bike with a value of $150-$200 Not a
$1000.00 thing.
Richard Kilpatrick (PC)
<gramp...@aol.com> writes
> Any way all Im looking for is a Mountain Bike with a value of $150-$200 Not a
>$1000.00 thing.
But what you're trying to swap isn't worth that much. Unless it all
works, in which case, advertise it for money instead:
How about:
C128 with JiffyDos and power supply - $25
5-1541 disk drives - $20 each (that's $100)
2-Magnavox 40-80 column color monitors - $25 each.
1 Magnavox 40 color monitor - $20
Star NX 1001 printer with G-Wiz interface - $20
Sears SR2000 printer - $15
All system books, system software and cables. (Include with the relevant
item)
There, see? $230. Now all you need to do is advertise it /once/, have an
attitude realignment, and bugger off. In fact, skip the advertising.
I've done that bit for you.
Richard
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Clockmeister
GramPa. wrote in message <20000708234030...@ng-fo1.aol.com>...
>AOL HAS TOLD ME THAT THIS MESSAGE BASE IS FOR COMMODORE ITEMS TO BE SOLD OR
>TRADED!! It is not setup as a Question and answer area. If ya dont loke my
post
>go else-where.
How about you try to sell/swap your gear in your local classifieds?.
If you're not prepared to ship, you have about a snowflakes chance in hell
of getting rid of your junk here.
On your bike mate!.
Clockmeister
GramPa. wrote in message <20000710121806...@ng-fg1.aol.com>...
>>From: "Clockmeister"
>
>>Date: Mon, Jul 10, 2000 12:06 EDT
>
>>If you're not prepared to ship, you have about a snowflakes chance in hell
>>of getting rid of your junk here.
>
>"JUNK".
Not in the way your implying. One persons junk is anothers treasure.
> Any way all Im looking for is a Mountain Bike with a value of $150-$200
Not a
>$1000.00 thing.
Like I said, try locally. If not sell it off bit by bit until you have
enough to buy a bike although if you're not prepared to ship, you are
wasting your time by advertising here.
Regards,
Clockmeister.
J. Robertson
<rg...@hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>On 9 Jul 2000, GramPa. wrote:
[ snip ]
>I'll make this simple for the AOL subscribers: Stop posting repeated
>advertisements here. Tell your sysadmins to change their entry for the
>purpose for comp.sys.cbm.
I wonder how many other newsgroups AOL has falsely classified...
Jason
Erlend Pettersen
wrote:
[...]
> You have some decent stuff, and you can sell it. But it requires a bit
>of work, and some patients (sp) on your part. You could use one of the
^^^^^^^^
:)
-Erlend Pettersen- puz...@fix.no
jf...@lava.net
Joe (aka kilroy only a monkeys uncle)
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*** Ham KH6JF since '37 ***
*** AARS/MARS since '40 ***
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Richard Atkinson
> Who the $#~??*** is Grand-Pa anyway????
Someone with an AOL email address. Says it all, really...
Richard
GramPa.
>Date: Fri, Jul 14, 2000 03:23 EDT
>Message-id: <8kmf5t$3he$1...@mochi.lava.net>
>
>Who the $#~??*** is Grand-Pa anyway????
>
>
FUCK YOU jOE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Terminator
Please post your sales only to:
http://www.inxpress.net/~redcat23/c64/
This should be enough...
BTW, I have seen your ads since March or so...
It's rather tiring to my eyes!
IF YOU REALLY ARE INTERESTED (no yelling intended) you should put
it all on ebay and see what you get... Surely it's better than
nothing (add another $100 or so and you got your bike)...
Burt
Decimal Cat
"Richard Atkinson" <rg...@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.21.00071...@bortevo.al.cl.cam.ac.uk...
>
>
>
> Richard
>
*sigh* I try hard, I really do. I try to be open-minded towards AOLers and
avoid the stereotypes.. but they just continue to give me so much evidence
to the contrary..
So, SpamPa, please stick your head in a toilet bowl and flush.
--Decimal Cat
Clockmeister
Terminator wrote in message <29dafdaa...@usw-ex0102-015.remarq.com>...
>Hey, let's be nice here...
>Please post your sales only to:
>http://www.inxpress.net/~redcat23/c64/
>This should be enough...
>BTW, I have seen your ads since March or so...
>It's rather tiring to my eyes!
>IF YOU REALLY ARE INTERESTED (no yelling intended) you should put
>it all on ebay and see what you get... Surely it's better than
>nothing (add another $100 or so and you got your bike)...
>Burt
>
>
He's not willing to ship, making his postings here even more pointless.
Regards,
Clockmeister.
GramPa.
thin happy to. AOL is Cool for me IF ya dont like it set your god****
PREFERENCES so ya cant read my post, by the way that goes for all of ya dame
Easterners...ther is a West cost people and thats what I am going to target
with my commodore hardware to.
So SET UP your PREFERENCES Big SHOTS ( if ya know how) so ya pour people dont
have to PAY for the download haha ( I get it free W/AOL).
GramPa.
Terminator
pointless.
Yeah, good luck with that one then... I sell stuff on ebay, and
I'm always willing to ship provided buyer is willing to pay for
shipping (take this as a hint Grampa!)
Grampa: put your stuff on (tested and all) starting at $50 US and
see what you get (want to maximize your $ value wait till
holidays such as Xmas or thanksgiving)...
Terminator
will be more
>thin happy to. AOL is Cool for me IF ya dont like it set your
god****
>PREFERENCES so ya cant read my post, by the way that goes for
all of ya dame
>Easterners...ther is a West cost people and thats what I am
going to target
>with my commodore hardware to.
1) You should be considerate of other people ! (that's what the
webboards are for, not newsgroups - at least repeative
posting)...
2) what you're asking is unreasonable...
Please see : buying and selling on this link:
http://www.mergetel.com/~blitz/C64/cbmlinks.html
Vintage computer wants:
C128 WITH POWER SUPPLY
$59.95
C128D (COMPLETE $124.95)
C128 COMPUTER keyboard $39.95
And their stuff is tested and all... Proven seller.
Besides many of the C128 sell for less than that (more if
excellent condition and boxed)...
Have a look on Ebay by searching for completed items...
3) Many of the people here (in this newsgroups) already have one
if not several commodore systems... That's not effective market
targeting...
New People that need one usually turn to local flea markets or
Ebay/Yahoo auctions... (I got mine at both places)...
4) Try posting your item on Ebay (price it at whatever, but be
aware of fees)... Testing the equipment would be beneficial...
Get cash through ebay, then buy your bike :-)... That's if you
really intend to sell your items...
5) Revise your asking price (or beware that you'll never sell the
item)
> So SET UP your PREFERENCES Big SHOTS ( if ya know how) so ya
pour people dont
>have to PAY for the download haha ( I get it free W/AOL).
> GramPa.
That's not a solution. Btw, download is not an issue. Internet
ettique is though.
Hope you appreciate my 2 cents to this "dilemma"...
ken ross
>>ther is a West cost people and thats what I am
> pour people dont
> >have to PAY for the download haha ( I get it free W/AOL).
> > GramPa.
>>dame Easterner
before - quite unusual as an insult
if he does get a bike you'll be able to spot him - it'll have
training wheels ( usa ) / stabilisers ( uk)
on it and his mother won't let him go on the road ....
Christian Link
wrote:
>if he does get a bike you'll be able to spot him - it'll have
>training wheels ( usa ) / stabilisers ( uk)
>on it and his mother won't let him go on the road ....
Which surely is better for him. A regular of the newsgroups he
harassed may come along in a car and - gee, accidents can happen, you
know ;-) ...
GramPa.
Denard Springle
GramPa. <gramp...@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20000719221702...@ng-bh1.aol.com...
> I just may fill this news grope up yet. Start saving up for your download
time.
Ya know, to be a 'GramPa' you sure are a childish person - GROW UP and GO
AWAY if you have nothing more to contribute to the discussions here than a
flame war, m'kay?
-Denny
Decimal Cat
"GramPa." <gramp...@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20000719221702...@ng-bh1.aol.com...
> I just may fill this news grope up yet.
Hmm..
--Decimal Cat
GramPa.
>Ya know, to be a 'GramPa' you sure are a childish person - GROW UP and GO
>AWAY if you have nothing more to contribute to the discussions here than a
>flame war, m'kay?
>
>-Denny
>
>
I did NOT start this BUD!!!!!!!!!!!
ya know the more I post on here the more I think most of the users here are
under 15 years old. Im out of this Kids Game. That must be way this is a
Commodore group, The Kids cant aford A PC.
Richard Atkinson
> I did NOT start this BUD!!!!!!!!!!!
> ya know the more I post on here the more I think most of the users here are
> under 15 years old. Im out of this Kids Game. That must be way this is a
> Commodore group, The Kids cant aford A PC.
Please do not consider the opinions of one Mr Denard Springle to be
representative of this newsgroup. Mr Springle is clearly out on a limb
with his attitudes.
The people on the newsgroup fall into two categories, generally speaking:
1. People who have been using Commodore computers from the beginning. This
people tend to be in the USA, use GEOS and can't or don't want to make the
transition to IBM PC-compatibles or other machines. They usually value CBM
hardware fairly highly.
2. People who used Commodore computers when they were young, have since
moved onto PCs or Macs as their main machines, but found themselves coming
back to CBMs in their recreational time, for whatever reason. These people
come from all over the world and tend to value Commodore machines low in
financial terms, but very high in terms of the enjoyment to be had using
them.
Richard
Terminator
your download
>time.
>
UP and GO
>AWAY if you have nothing more to contribute to the discussions
here than a
>flame war, m'kay?
It's a pity that the internet (and much of computer world) has
become full of people like Grampa... Sigh... I wish we were
back in the 80s, where people that really wanted to use computers
and knew how to use them, were the ones using it... That's often
not the case today...
Daniel Morrow
Richard Atkinson wrote:
> On 21 Jul 2000, GramPa. wrote:
> > under 15 years old. Im out of this Kids Game. That must be way this is a
> > Commodore group, The Kids cant aford A PC.
>
I own two pc's and (listening to mp3's right now) use them almost exclusively as
tools (except for the super cheap one which I use to watch tv with) for doing more
with the c64/c128. Sorry but in my opinion your stereotype is false here. Later!
GramPa.
>It's a pity that the internet (and much of computer world) has
>become full of people like Grampa... Sigh... I wish we were
>back in the 80s, where people that really wanted to use computers
>and knew how to use them, were the ones using it... That's often
>not the case today...
>
>
Ya know I use A computer avery day, I (haha) just cant (and dont) see a
commodore 64 or 128 as a full blown Computer any more. When I compute I use my
PC, when I want to play a game I use my PlayStation. So If I need the door to
stay open I use the Commodore, trust me it works!!! :-)
Clockmeister
GramPa. wrote in message <20000722111352...@ng-bk1.aol.com>...
Indeed it does, and with your attitude, I would think you will continue to
have a lot of doorstops laying around.
GramPa.
new owner :-)
He got the best deal in town.
Terminator
speaking:
>
>1. People who have been using Commodore computers from the
beginning. This
>people tend to be in the USA, use GEOS and can't or don't want
to make the
>transition to IBM PC-compatibles or other machines. They usually
value CBM
>hardware fairly highly.
>
>2. People who used Commodore computers when they were young,
have since
>moved onto PCs or Macs as their main machines, but found
themselves coming
>back to CBMs in their recreational time, for whatever reason.
These people
>come from all over the world and tend to value Commodore
machines low in
>financial terms, but very high in terms of the enjoyment to be
had using
>them.
I proudly fall into second category, although I'm thinking about
getting back to the first one (hopefully once C2000 comes up with
their 8-bit computer...)
BTW, I'm from Canada (not USA)... There's some people from
Mexico as well.... Europe too... Asia (?),.. Australia (for
sure)... South America (?)...
Decimal Cat
> Indeed it does, and with your attitude, I would think you will continue to
> have a lot of doorstops laying around.
>
He ought to detach his head and use that as a door-stop, as it appears to be
the most useless thing on his body.
--DecimalCat
GramPa.
posted my commodore stuff once a week. has enyone counted the useless post to
tell me i was spaming.
HAHA Grow up People!!!
PS.
Thanks again for all the Spam, It helped me to sell my commodore Hardware
:-)
bala...@my-deja.com
jk...@juno.com (J. Robertson) wrote:
> On 09 Jul 2000 03:40:30 GMT, gramp...@aol.com (GramPa.) wrote:
>
> >AOL HAS TOLD ME THAT THIS MESSAGE BASE IS FOR COMMODORE ITEMS TO BE
SOLD OR
> >TRADED!! It is not setup as a Question and answer area. If ya dont
loke my post
> >go else-where.
>
> Um, I think the problem may be that this isn't an AOL message base...
> otherwise us non-AOL people wouldn't be able to access it. Also, this
> isn't a marketplace message base or marketplace newsgroup either, it's
> a technical discussion group which is part of the "Usenet".
>
I think the other problem here is that AOL displays it's own
versions of the groups' discriptions when displaying newsgroups
(I think there is an option to show the "normal" discriptions, but I
haven't used AOL in over a year, and most of the time used a unix
shell account for Usenet :). Another AOL idea(tm)
>
Jason
>
> > GramPa.
>
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
leo herranen
>Good. Now that your Commodore stuff is gone you no longer have a reason to
>be here have you?.
I only(almost only) use emulators(though i'll buy a c64 soon...)
lXa
Clockmeister
GramPa. wrote in message <20000723144053...@ng-fp1.aol.com>...
Good. Now that your Commodore stuff is gone you no longer have a reason to
be here have you?.
Clockmeister
leo herranen wrote in message <8lkftd$fb0$1...@news.koti.tpo.fi>...
>>be here have you?.
>
But I don't see you in here C64 bashing either. GramPa said some things that
would indicate that he no longer is interested in Commodore stuff.
Regards,
Clockmeister.
Charles Houck
download time.
A news *grope* ? Sounds kinky.
Chas
chupy
I CANT FIND
MY
GramPa
can you help
:-)
he took my door stop :-)
"Clockmeister" <gerr...@tnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:uv6c5.29$RC4....@nsw.nnrp.telstra.net...
>
> Terminator wrote in message
<29dafdaa...@usw-ex0102-015.remarq.com>...
> >Hey, let's be nice here...
> >BTW, I have seen your ads since March or so...
> >It's rather tiring to my eyes!
> >IF YOU REALLY ARE INTERESTED (no yelling intended) you should put
> >it all on ebay and see what you get... Surely it's better than
> >nothing (add another $100 or so and you got your bike)...
> >Burt
> >
> >
>
>
>
> Clockmeister.
>
>
>