Re: [aclug-L] Cheap hardware

[phrostie <phrostie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

it is not so much that they are difficult, but rather there is not much
you can change on them.
i've got a dell mid tower 486-66.
i can't increase the cpu speed with out an evergreen.
i can't change out motherboards unless i use a hacksaw and drill(which
i am considering).
i can add memory, harddrives, cdroms.
it is easy to open and remove parts but  the only things i'd like
to do i can't.

it is a nice machine for what it is.
a $40 Dell, with a network card, 380 mg hd, 16 mg ram.
it gives me somthing to play on, with out screwing up my desktop.

Greg House wrote:

It was about the best I'd seen, especially for a local place.  Help the rest
of us into older/cheap hardware here, where'd you get P100s for a Franklin?

Down side is that all the ones at Boeing are Dells, which I've heard can be
difficult to work on.

Greg

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx <aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, April 29, 1999 9:41 PM
Subject: Re: [aclug-L] Cheap hardware

>That's not a real great price... I've gotten similarly configured P100
>machines for $100 recently.
>
>
>On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Greg House wrote:
>
>> I was out at Boeing Surplus yesterday and they had three pallats of Dell
P90
>> systems for sale.  $135 each.  Desktop case, 16MB memory, 540MB hard
drive,
>> appeared to have both a video card and a network card in there with 'em.
>> Most of them looked heavily soiled externally.  There were at least 20 on
>> each pallat, so there are a lot of them.
>>
>> They also had a few 486 systems for like $35.  Also had network cards.
>>
>> Greg
>>
>>
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