... This is the best kind of eBay auction, in that there is full disclosure, no hype, no reserve and left to the market to determine an appropriate selling price.

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Agreed. As you wrote, a model of disclosure and unhyped description.

And, as a machine that worked for its keep, there needs to be no apology for its upgrades, nor any sense that the Mac is somehow inferior or untrue to its origins. That security slot was a prime candidate for re-education to some useful purpose, keeping 'mutilation' of the case-bucket to a minimum. The Dove SCSI card that I added to my 512Ke makes use of it for the DB-25 port, avoiding the contrived refabrication of the battery cover as planned by Dove, and I have no sense of shame in having added it.

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