An order

Who: Cerebrum
Where: Somewhere on Blue Dwarf
When: Sometime after the Big Bang and a while before the Big Crunch
"...and I'll need one psi-detector as well as three Forthronthin
Alpha wave synchronisers. How much will all that cost?" said Cerebrum
into the subspace communicator, while looking at a psychiatric
magazine.
"The total price comes to 235,975.34 dollarpounds, including taxes,
shipping and handeling," responded back the mechanical voice.
Cerebrum glanced down at his bank account read-our. Nope, there
hadn't been any bank errors in his favor during the last thirty
seconds, there wass still fifty-five hundred dollarpounds.
"I'm going to have to tone down the order just a bit," he said.
Fifteen minutes later
"That will be forty-nine hundred dollarpounds, taxes, shipping and
handling included," Cerebrum punched in his bank code number into the
machine, "payment has been received. Thank you. Your order will
arrive next week."
Cerebrum walked away from the communicator. If he didn't get a budget
soon, he might actually have to use equipment constructed by non-
professionals, people like the engineering staff.