Any 386s for sale?

From: Wirehead Prime <wirehead_at_retrocomputing.com>
Date: Thu Dec 11 17:36:30 1997

Well, look at it this way Tim...he's offering to take some PC 'junk' off
a collectors' hands (and we all have too much of it I'm sure) so we can
fill our space with useful computers like PDPs and S100 boxes. =-)

He's offering to do us a service! ;)

Wirehead

On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Tim Shoppa wrote:

> > 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.
> > > 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.
>
> Is it just me, or do these discussions seem better suited to one of
> the mainstream PC-clone newsgroups on Usenet?
>
> I realize that 386's and 286's are, in some cases, more than ten years
> old. They just don't seem very classic to me. Of course, I have
> a room here at home with 7 PDP-11's, 9 9-track drives, a 7-track drive,
> and 12 14" disk drives, so I may be entirely off base here. (And,
> to bring the discussion back around, all these machines have Ethernet
> cards in them and would work on a college's network just fine...)
>
> Tim. (shoppa_at_triumf.ca)
>
Received on Thu Dec 11 1997 - 17:36:30 GMT