Re: [aclug-L] Computer "sale"

["Greg House" <ghouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Computer Geeks (www.compgeeks.com) has had complete P75 systems for $129 for
a couple of months.  My friend bought one, it doesn't look too bad!  A
pretty tight little desktop case, not much room for other stuff. I've
thought about getting one, but I don't know how Linux/X would sit with their
not very standard chipsets.  The video's on the motherboard. Here's their
sales blurb:

 "An Excellent starter system. Featuring a Pentium 75 Processor with 16MB of
RAM. Motherboard has Integrated Multi I/O and 1 Meg Video Controller.
Includes a 540 Megabyte hard drive, a 3.5inch floppy drive, and an Intel 10
Base-T network interface card.
Motherboard features a standard Socket5 ZIF Socket on a SIS chipset
supporting Intel P75, P90, andP100 CPU's.
 Desktop Case features : (2) Externallyaccessable 5.25'' Bays (available),
(1) Externally accessable 5.25'' drive bay (occupied by Floppy Drive), (1)
Internal 3.5'' drive bay (occupied by Hard Drive) and 200 Watt Power
supply.10 Base-T Network Card, 1.44mb Floppy Drive, and PS/2 Keyboard and
Mouse Included "

Greg


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Holmes <maholmes@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: 'aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx' <aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, March 13, 1999 8:00 PM
Subject: RE: [aclug-L] Computer "sale"


>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
>
>-----Original Message-----
>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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>--
>phrostie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Oh I've slipped the surly bonds of dos
>and danced the skies on LINUX silvered wings.
>http://www.cottagesoft.com/~phrostie/cad-tastrafy/cad-tastrafy.html
>
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