Can you figure out what this person is requesting?

Occasionally I get emails with cryptic requests, most often from folks from non-English speaking countries. Some are SPAM, some not. This is one of the most cryptic that I have ever seen. Do you think I should reply and ask for more information?

Subject: Prom provramming
Date: September 19, 2013 9:01:34 AM EDT
To: mike@willegal.net

First of all i admire people like you that release that what they know to the people in the word
I search the prom code that can programming into the ptom that started the screen monitior opporation.
If you tell me when if it possible to get this i will thank you

Have is nice day
name removed
If it is cost mony tell me

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6 Responses to “Can you figure out what this person is requesting?”

  1. John Calande says:
    September 19, 2013 at 11:02 am

    MW,

    Sounds to me like this person is looking for an A1-A4 / 6301-J set of PROMs.

    John Calande
    http://apple1computer.blogspot.com/

  2. Ken Gagne says:
    September 19, 2013 at 12:10 pm

    If not, maybe ask them to use Google Translate from their native language?

  3. Antoine says:
    September 19, 2013 at 5:04 pm

    Yes, you should reply. That is relatively easy to understand,
    antoine

  4. Lionel Theunissen says:
    September 19, 2013 at 9:54 pm

    I would guess that they are asking for the binary files to burn a set of Apple-1 monitor PROMS.

  5. Mike says:
    September 20, 2013 at 7:32 pm

    I’m not 100% sure, but I think Lionel is right. Anyway, I sent the person an email and he indicates that he solved his issue, without further explanation.

  6. D finnigan says:
    October 1, 2013 at 5:35 pm

    This reads like a word substitution of French to English. It’s French grammar with English words.