Your Commodore - Commodore Is Awesome

• FEATURE
Above: "And the bid from the spotty geek
in the corner is..."
Below: "Who will buy this second hand
toilet roll?"
COMPUTER
AUCTIONS
SothebvS•, not some pokey college hail at Southgate College of
W Technology in North London. Still, the journey wasn't too had and
I hgot
there in good time. "Take some photos", he said so I lugged my camera
along e as well,
n You can imagine the looks I got when I entered the steamy, overflowing
hall. t As I walked past, heads turned to regard this spectacle of a man with
a
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camera as though I had three heads and a Nikon. I pushed my way through
the hordes of people until I could see what was happening at the front. Looking
around
e
the overfilled room, I saw people, more people and more people, and
then E a computer! And another, and a printer, a monitor, stacks of boxes
and d even more kit than I've got at home - rather a lot.
a Advancing towards a smart looking Star LC-10 printer I brushed past
a sfriendly
chap who said that the auction was about to start in a minute
or k two and I had better get myself a catalogue. He waved a vvodge of paper
at
e
me. I thanked him and struggled towards a seething mass of people
congregated at the front of the hall. Joining a queue, a man with a moustache
sat
d
himself down on a chair on the stage, cleared his throat and spoke into
a mmicroprhone.
"The sale will start in five minutes. May I remind everyone
that e if you want to bid for anything in today's sale, you must register at the
front," t he pointed to the queue I was standing in.
o At the front, I was given a card to fill in with my name and address,
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