If your brothers are looking to hook up to the college's computer
network (for email,www, etc.), you might want to steer away from
microchannel based machines (PS/2's and some others) because many
colleges are now installing networking cards right in the students
systems. Most of them won't have anything based on microchannel.
Cord Coslor wrote:
>
> Greetings:
>
> I hope this isn't too far off the goal of this list... I am hoping that
> some of my friends from this great list might be able to help me out. I am
> desperately looking to buy 1 or 2 IBM compatible 386 machines. The reason
> is, I am looking to get a fairly low cost computer system for my brothers
> who are currently freshman and sophomore in college. Yes, I know, I tried
> the TRS-80, Commodore, and Apple, etc., route with them already, but my
> parents are looking to get them some fairly recent computers for a
> Christmas gift. I guess what they are looking for is 386/486 machines,
> with at least 4-8meg ram, Windows 3.1 (yuk!), 200 meg+ hard drive, and
> possible some old dot matrix printers. I of course have printers so that
> isn't a priority. But, the parents are willing to pay for them, so... if
> any of you have 1 or 2 old 386s setups around, PLEASE get in touch with me
> ASAP, with your offering price + shipping, and I know we could work out a
> deal. Software also isn't needed, as I have a $%!^ load, but I would like
> to get something that is fairly already setup, complete, and ready to go.
> Payment could be to in with a couple of days and would like to receive the
> units ASAP. Of course, this is all sight-unseen, so I'll trust your
> judgements and descriptions.
>
> Thank you very much for your consideration on these wants. I hope you
> could wade through my b.s. and figure out what I'm looking for. :-)
>
> Thanks,
>
> CORD
>
> //*=====================================================================++
> || Cord G. Coslor P.O. Box 308 - 1300 3rd St. Apt "M1" -- Peru, NE ||
> || (402) 872- 3272 coslor_at_bobcat.peru.edu 68421-0308 ||
> || Classic computer software and hardware collector ||
> || Autograph collector ||
> ++=====================================================================*//
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Dan Rector
rector_at_usa.net
Received on Thu Dec 11 1997 - 09:02:20 GMT