RE: [aclug-L] Computer "sale"

[Michael Holmes <maholmes@xxxxxxxxxx>]

About a month ago, they had some pent-75's they had 5xx meg, and a floppy 
they went for 300 and all five disappeared before I could get back from the 
bank

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From:   phrostie [SMTP:phrostie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent:   Saturday, March 13, 1999 3:29 PM
To:     aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:        Re: [aclug-L] Computer "sale"

boeing surplus has another load of old 486's for sale.
dell's and ibm's
33' and 66' MHz
drives are around 320 ro 350 MB
SMC ethernet cards
.
.
.
they are asking $40.

i keep waiting for something that starts with a "P"
i've seen them at work used for door stops, no joke.

phrostie

Jeff wrote:

> On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Nate Bargmann wrote:
>
> > I went over to the Red Coach Inn around mid-morning.  I found the
> > registration desk and a sign said "Admission $3."  Well, that was all I
> > needed to see as none of the ads I heard said anything about admission.
>
> I got there about 9 or so, and decided to go on in.  I think I got my
> money's worth, though, as I got about 45 feet of ready-to-go coax cable
> for $4 (new it's $10 for 10 feet). I also bought a couple used ethernet
> cards for my soon-to-be-built LAN.
>
> Most of what was there was used stuff; some old boxes, monitors, memory,
> video cards, chips, motherboards, CD-Roms, HD, etc. The middle table had
> several tables of crap, er I mean, software.  Another table had a whole
> bunch of shareware disks.  The sale wasn't really huge, maybe 15 ish
> tables.  Makes me wish I knew how much old hardware was worth; there were
> several 486s with 4-16 meg RAM and 100M-1G hard drives.  One table had
> about 4 or 5 complete systems for $295: 486, 14" monitor, CD-Rom, etc (I
> don't recall the details).
>
> They had a drawing for a Toshiba laptop and other door prizes; KRZZ was
> just getting set up by the time I left.  If I stayed much longer I
> probably would have spent too much money :)
>
> Overall, I thought it was OK. I wouldn't say it'd be worth it for someone
> who just wanted to browse -- you'd want to get your $3 worth.  Knowing
> what you want and how much it's worth to you helps; to me, some of the
> stuff was a real bargain, other things weren't. It's also a little bit 
out
> of the way (especially for a south-Seneca dweller).  Roads were good,
> though.
>
> "Big up" to Nate Bargmann for letting me/us know about it.
>
> -jeff "I'm not a reporter"
> ----
> Homer: You're selling WHAT, now?
>   Apu: I am selling only the concept of karmic realignment.
> Homer: You can't sell that!  Karma can only be portioned out by the
>        cosmos.  [slams the door]   --Apu: He's got me there.
>
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