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Post by Nitro God on Mar 30, 2006 12:04:24 GMT -5
I read in a recent article that a Code device used in World War 2 was being sold on Ebay. These code typers are usually located in Museums and it is quite strange that someone should have such a thing that is so rare. I haven't checked and I don't know what price but it should be going pretty high.
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Post by Kevin on Mar 30, 2006 13:14:40 GMT -5
The auction can be seen here. Anything can be sold on Ebay... no big suprise for me. It can be seen by a larger market than in a private auction. |
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Post by Nitro God on Mar 30, 2006 13:27:38 GMT -5
Anything yes, but everything No.
There has been loads of things on Ebay but that is pretty impressive.
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Post by Peon on Mar 30, 2006 13:43:49 GMT -5
Anything can be sold on Ebay... Firearms cannot be sold on eBay, and there are some other banned items as well. A bootlegged Game Boy Color game known as Telefang was sold in two versions in the United States as Pokémon Diamond and Jade and is banned from some online auctions like eBay nowadays, considering it's not a genuine Pokémon game. |
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Post by tractakid on Mar 30, 2006 14:00:33 GMT -5
Talking of the enigma machine, the main codebreaking place is just down the road from me. Literally! (well, the main road through the city)
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Post by Nitro God on Mar 30, 2006 14:03:17 GMT -5
Anything can be sold on Ebay... Firearms cannot be sold on eBay, and there are some other banned items as well. A bootlegged Game Boy Color game known as Telefang was sold in two versions in the United States as Pokémon Diamond and Jade and is banned from some online auctions like eBay nowadays, considering it's not a genuine Pokémon game. Thats intresting. |
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Post by tractakid on Mar 30, 2006 14:05:53 GMT -5
very.
*yawns*
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Post by Nitro God on Mar 30, 2006 14:13:36 GMT -5
Ohahaha  |
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Post by Phil on Mar 30, 2006 14:25:24 GMT -5
I think Ebay is a wonderful thing for shopping. I have found things there I could not find anywhere else. I still have to wonder if some of the things are authentic. I bought some movies on Dvd that were not in labels but a simple packing so that probably means they're bootlegged but they played all right so I didn't care.
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Post by Kevin on Mar 30, 2006 14:48:10 GMT -5
Anything can be sold on Ebay... Firearms cannot be sold on eBay, and there are some other banned items as well. A bootlegged Game Boy Color game known as Telefang was sold in two versions in the United States as Pokémon Diamond and Jade and is banned from some online auctions like eBay nowadays, considering it's not a genuine Pokémon game. I meant that as a hyperbole... of coure everything can't be sold, but there is such a large range of things you can find there. |
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Post by Nitro God on Mar 30, 2006 14:57:47 GMT -5
U can find just about anything on it.
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Post by Classicblast on Mar 30, 2006 20:57:37 GMT -5
I know who would love any World War 2 info that would be Blastgirl's sister Kim.
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Post by Blastgirl on Mar 30, 2006 21:44:13 GMT -5
That is true. We need to get Kim back in Lewasite she has not been around for a long time.
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Post by mattis on Mar 30, 2006 21:52:29 GMT -5
dude, the enigma was incredibly awesome. it replaced each key typed with a different letter, then another, then another, based on three dials. every time a key was struck, the dials changed. I think they each had 9 or 10 positions and turned like a stopwatch counting up. there was also a mirror to send it back through the dials again. only another Enigma could decode it, until Alan Turing invented the Bombe, which cracked the code.
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Post by Blastgirl on Apr 1, 2006 22:01:25 GMT -5
I don't know why this reminded me of an old story, but when I was in sixth grade there was a kid in second grade on the bus who would always pretend he was in World War II flying a plane and attacking the Japs in the Pacific. It had something to do with he saw a movie about the battle of midway. He was seven.
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Post by Kimm on Apr 9, 2006 17:09:48 GMT -5
I dont know how authentic everything that is found on ebay might be but I still find everything associated with historic events interesting.
I should be a teacher by the spring of 2007 and then I'll try to have a teaching job for the 2007-2008 school year. ;D
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Post by im_an_alien on Apr 11, 2006 15:31:06 GMT -5
Auction's over
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Post by Blastgirl on Apr 14, 2006 20:07:25 GMT -5
I dont know how authentic everything that is found on ebay might be but I still find everything associated with historic events interesting. I should be a teacher by the spring of 2007 and then I'll try to have a teaching job for the 2007-2008 school year. ;D Kim will be a cool teacher too. ;D |
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