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Here's why:

Over at this post it really looks like, at some point in time before it really started to blow up on them, they continued to attempt to take in 'customer' information for some purpose:

Dear Customer,
thank you for your order of SETI accelerator.
Due to the overwhelming response, we regret we can not process your order at the moment. The placed orders exceed our stock by far and further production will take about 10 weeks.
We are very sorry, but we had to cancel your order, as we can not be sure you would like to buy our product under these conditions.
If you still would like to order SETI Accelerator please place your order again and we will be glad to deliver your order as soon as possible.
We do apologize for any inconvenience.
kind regards

Andrej Schachnazarow
KrasnoConv Solutions

Note that this is a slight mis-spelling of the bogus name used for the domain registration, below...

When you poke around where some of the guys have come clean (aww... shucks! You guessed! Hey! We were just kiddin' around, guys!) you can find a faint trail:

Dirk S's email is to setigermany.de, where he's webmaster and domain registrant:

Domainname: setigermany.de
Domaininhaber: Dirk Schimansky
Frankenweg 15
D-53225
Bonn
Germany

And, although the two other guys only point themselves to email at krasnoconv itself, in fact they are all involved in setigermany.de, perhaps along with the mystical (... and the two 'men in black') mentioned at the bottom of the page..

The krasnoconv.com domain itself was set up right from the get-go to be totally fake:

It's registered to somebody completely bogus:

registrant-title: Herr
registrant-firstname: Andrej
registrant-lastname: Schachnasarow
registrant-organization: KrasnoConv
registrant-street: Au 5
registrant-pcode: 94140
registrant-city: Ering

Which is a city in Germany that doen't exist^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcan't be found in the 1996 National Geographic Atlas of the World's index..

registrant-ccode: DE
registrant-phone: +49 8573 12345

And somebody used a fishy-looking phone number...

registrant-email: KrasnoConv@mail.ru

..and the registrant used a mail-drop in Russia (if it's real at all: I didn't bother to check..)

So somebody went to a fair amount of work to set up a bogus domain.

So I dunno.

Is this just what passes for good clean fun, in the eyes of today's German youth?

t_t_b
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I think not; therefore I ain't®

Look in the lower-left corner of this image of the 6-processor board.

That's an ADAPTEC logo!!!!

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Would you ever buy anything that came from a place that looked like this?

Q: On which computers will the board work?

A: Generally on all computers that have a free standard PCI slot. Drivers and batch-procedures are available for PCs running Windows(TM) 95/98/NT/2000 and linux. Macintosh drivers are in preparation. If your system is not supported at present, let us know, and we will try to find a solution.