[aclug-L] Re: Boeing Surplus has P I - 133 -16meg for 20.00 !

["Michael Holmes" <maholmes@xxxxxxxxxx>]

EXACTLY, I figured a 20 computer was a nice deal to play with.  Not for a
family cpu.

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Hall" <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <discussion@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2000 11:49 PM
Subject: [aclug-L] Re: Boeing Surplus has P I - 133 -16meg for 20.00 !


>
> I think the point of the Boeing Surplus post was that you could get
> used barebones SYSTEMS for very cheap.
>
> I don't think anyone would argue that there are other better places for
new
> "quality" hardware.
>
> Personally, I've not been impressed with McGlen Micro's prices... and they
> charge a lot for shipping.  But... I have bought a few things from them.
>
> -- Jonathan
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 12:00:10AM -0500, CHEFRUB@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > Your right about older stuff, mcglen only has new, quality stuff. Good
ram,
> > inexpensive, and backed.
> > I like geeks.com, awaiting on a TV/FM card from them, was $37 new retail
box.
> > Geeks has PPros cheap, & i saw MB's for the pro's for $47 on the web
too.
> > I run Abit BP6 with to Cele 500's, with a $300 cost for new board & 2
cele
> > 5's, I would imagine that has abit over 2 ppro's....no? Or would a dual
PPro
> > 200 be comparable, any guess? Dont forget, EDO is twice the price of
> > PC133SDram. Oh ya, whats the limit on Ram n a PPro Dual Board?
> > Matt
> >
> > In a message dated 12/9/2000 7:07:35 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> > ghouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> >
> >
> > > Um...yeah... Except that they don't have anything even remotely
comperable to
> > > these systems. I search their website for desktop / pentium | mmx |
pro and
> > > got
> > > NOTHING. They had some stuff under PII, ranging from $400-1000.
Looking
> > > elsewhere on their site, I don't see anything that I consider an
exceptional
> > > deal (beyond that, the site is a pain to navigate). What does this
place
> > > have
> > > that's a good buy?
> > >
> > > As far as web/mailorder vendors go: For new components I've had good
deals
> > > with
> > > www.microbarn.com. For used/surplus compgeeks.com has pretty good
deals.
> > >
> > > Greg
> >
> >
> >
> >
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