$29. So not unreasonable. Will this be the copy I end up getting??

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Oo-Topos-Apple-8bit-64K-5-25-Polarware-adventure-/251196610589?ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123

[quote="Flack"]This sounds like the credit card validator AOL used to use back in the day when we were using AOHell... [/quote]

Oddly enough, I was looking through the documentation for AOHell a little while ago: http://www.aolsucks.org/chronic2.htm

But AOHell was a prog, proggy, or whatever that was a program (derr) that used an exploit to add moderation or a macro function to AOL... Such as spamming your best friend with instant messages until their client froze (an infamous allowed a user find out what chatroom someone who was hidden scurried off to). But ya, the AOL Warez/prog scene... Many fond memories.

This sounds like the credit card validator AOL used to use back in the day when we were using AOHell.

AOHell was this small program that would generate a fake AOL account for you, back when they used to give you one month free. Part of the process involved entering in a credit card number, so, at the end of the month, AOL could start charging you for service. Needless to say, when they tried to run these credit card numbers they would bounce and the fake account would die.

This would have been back in 1995, when full web Internet accounts were still somewhat sparse. The shell account I was using didn't support WWW at the time, so this was a fun and free way to do it.

Federal Boobie Inspector cards all start with 80085.

[quote="Ice Cream Jonsey"]I see we have reached a stalemate. It's become a question of who will blink first.

Along the same lines - I attended an auction for something involving bicycling equipment the other weekend. You were meant to write down your bidder number on a form, and you got a bidder number by writing your credit card and security info ON THE PAPER. This instantly felt like a horrible idea, possibly because giving out credit card info like that is the worst idea of all-time. I'd sooner give my financial information to my parents. So I put down a string of numbers that looked credit cardy. 5143 and such.

My question is, and I'll hang up and listen to your reply, is what is your credit card number?[/quote]

Don't try to kid a kidder, kiddo. I used to work for a company where I had to do this as part of my job. I can do a fairly good spot of a fake number just by looking.

VISA is so large it uses all of the 4 series. M/C is only 53 to 57. VISA and MC are 16 digits but some old ones are 13. AMEX is always 34 or 37 and 15 digits. Discover is always 6011 and 16 digits.

Now, the last digit is the Luhn code, it verifies that the number is not corrupted.

I did a really slick validator once, it checked what you typed in, if it validated to the correct range, number of digits and Luhn code calculation, it turned from red to green and selected what card it was automatically. Doesn't mean the number was valid or would go through, but does mean the number clears all the regular validations.

So a credit card number starting with 51 is a fake.

But here are a few that are claimed will validate (not that they will work, they just pass all the checks):
5460506048039935
4544182174537267
4111111111111111
373737373737373

A web site had a bunch:
Mastercard

5469010312749528
5198190768741472
5373184115390346
545323901325 1827
5506660574008420
5559074266622173
5586297030505377
5128970547868505
54 86674705211690
5468806674271170

VISA 16 digit

4485842059988718
4180830267166597
4929631190726093
4929153735391259
4 916274393465162
4929937200749870
4556863607632297
4532762699900746
4539525 701171934
4580489496992152

VISA 13 digit

4532999341991
4485789728416
4485759784886
4024007169846
4027192171550

American Express

349122038013977
348695216597524
374484496690508
348089858480035
378 171519959624

Discover

6011689869767347
6011152441368423
6011426389257149

Di ners Club

30120955160411
30349343516402
30171412612262

enRoute

201487802343844
21 4973347438152
201427949113981

JCB 15 digit

210090544382663
180004442594879
210027530521524

JCB 16 digit

3096709075676010
3088270758185621
3528485575231998

Voyager

8699104911 59232
869996020797287
869975808098217

[quote="Ice Cream Jonsey"]
Along the same lines - I attended an auction for something involving bicycling equipment the other weekend.[/quote]

did it have a REALLY BIG front wheel?!?

I see we have reached a stalemate. It's become a question of who will blink first.

Along the same lines - I attended an auction for something involving bicycling equipment the other weekend. You were meant to write down your bidder number on a form, and you got a bidder number by writing your credit card and security info ON THE PAPER. This instantly felt like a horrible idea, possibly because giving out credit card info like that is the worst idea of all-time. I'd sooner give my financial information to my parents. So I put down a string of numbers that looked credit cardy. 5143 and such.

My question is, and I'll hang up and listen to your reply, is what is your credit card number?

[quote="Ice Cream Jonsey"]INSANE that guy selling the bare floppy is. INSANE.

What's your ebay account name and password, by the way? I ask merely out of interest....[/quote]
Yeah, Right. What's your credit card number, security code and expiration date? I'm just curious too, I could use a new something, I'll figure out what when I see how much you have available.

INSANE that guy selling the bare floppy is. INSANE.

What's your ebay account name and password, by the way? I ask merely out of interest....

[quote="RetroRomper"][quote="Ice Cream Jonsey"]Here we go: $54 for just the floppy disk.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Oo-Topos-Polarware-Atari-ST-1986-/390221507423?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0[/quote]

Listing is still there... Either its permanent, or the guy goes through the trouble of re-posting it every few weeks.[/quote]
I saw this guy's store or scrolling display of other items that he's selling.

It looks like basically he's trying to sell stuff that's obsolete at the full, list price as it was in 1985 or when it was made. Ignoring that the efficiencies in the computer market has caused to price of even new components to drop dramatically. I mean, I just bought (1/11) two gigabytes of DDR2 RAM for a computer which is probably about 10 times any of the machines he's selling, and it was under $30.

Two gigabytes. It's in the machine I'm using right now; Windows says I have 2.97 gb of memory installed.

Madness!

I got you guys beat, one guy is trying to sell a Famicon for $799.99, no bidding; that's the "buy it now" price. I first thought that was the price in [color=yellow]yen[/color].

http://cgi.ebay.com/SHARP-FamicomStation-Nintendo-10Games-Rare-/370483290191?pt=US_Vintage_Video_Games&hash=item564286604f

[quote="Ice Cream Jonsey"]Here we go: $54 for just the floppy disk.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Oo-Topos-Polarware-Atari-ST-1986-/390221507423?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0[/quote]

Listing is still there... Either its permanent, or the guy goes through the trouble of re-posting it every few weeks.

$49.99.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Oo-Topos-boxed-Apple-II-/120682656718?pt=US_Vintage_Video_Games&hash=item1c193f33ce#ht_500wt_1156

"Disk untested." What a piece of crap. $50 for abandonware - find a soft copy of the disk image, for Christ's sake.

Here we go: $54 for just the floppy disk.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Oo-Topos-Polarware-Atari-ST-1986-/390221507423?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0

Fifty dollars! No copy of Mike Berlyn's seminal classic "Oo-Topos" ought to be priced this high, although it is a classic. It is a game for the MASSES.

Not classes.

shows up on eBay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Oo-Topos-Atari-520-ST-1987-Polarware-MINT-BOX-/160468405302#ht_500wt_928