On another note, I had seen an auction claiming only 475 Datahands were ever made. Fact or fiction?
No, that may be referring to that particular model, I don't know. There are more units than that overall, but they obviously are not a high volume product.
Datahand actually allegedly has a bunch of the obsolete DH-200 models (which is what both of there auctions are) stored somewhere. I spoke to Lynn at Datahand about it once, and Webwit just mentioned it as well. So you got THAT to look forward to
As far as the ancient incomplete unit for $1500 or best offer, it currently shows 6 offers, but only 5 people, and one is declined with the remaining pending. I'm not involved in the auction, how many of the 5 are from here? Interesting 4 are still pending if at least one of them is in the $70 range. Keeping his options open. I think whatever he gets will be more than he paid, so I'm not feeling the urge to "help him out"...plus he never responded to my email whether it works or not.
As a footnote-
If anyone here gets it, we can evaluate it and if the optical switches work, we can put a custom controller in it. I'd be interested after the holidays once I hunt down the 2 pricks (companies) that owe me my income for the last half of 2011 (they both pulled bankruptcies), and yank their brand new cars, nice clothes and anything else of theirs that looks too ridiculously new and expensive for being allegedly penniless while I clean out my savings, sell off things, and have the same monthly budget as a minimum wage worker until I stabilize everything.
