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Anyone know where you can buy the comically large harris XL400 as seen in Fire Department Coffee?
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mmckenna
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It's something they have a trade shows. I think you'd need to be a dealer and have Harris send you one.
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damn. Its just stupidly funny that I wanted to collect one. Thanks.
mmckenna
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Wait a few years, once the XL-400 has been on the market for a while, the novelty will wear off. They you can fight some Harris Fan Boy for it on e-Bay.
I think, right now, you'd have better luck getting an actual XL-400 than the marketing display.
Harris was sending out these lego looking kits to some customers that made a little XL-400. Keep your eyes open for those...
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mmckenna
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NOT my photo. This is NOT mine. I don't do fire stuff anymore.
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I'm glad I wasn't the only one that noticed that.
(Still waiting to find a PRC-152 shaped thumb drive...)
(Still waiting to find a PRC-152 shaped thumb drive...)
At a trade show recently, a colleague and I joked with our Harris dealer that we were going to steal one of those display props. Judging by his reaction they are quite expensive 
. He didn't have an exact number but it was pretty close to the price of an actual XL-400 unit.
. He didn't have an exact number but it was pretty close to the price of an actual XL-400 unit.