Ancient machines turning on (was Re: eBay strikes again...)

From: Max Eskin <maxeskin_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Sat Oct 31 15:59:32 1998

It's not that weird. Everyone knows that 286 and 386 machines are
crap ;) In fact, one reason is that noone gets attached to them, and
also because Pentia aren't that much different from 386s. So, no
nostalgia. And, I think that early PCs were a lot less useful than
some other machines of the time (like Commodores and Apples)
>
>> At 06:49 AM 10/31/98 -0800, Seth wrote:
>> >>
>> >> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=38897455
>> >>
>> >> ...with a broken disk drive and still 6 days to go!
>> >
>> >Aaah, my favorite quote from the auction posting:
>> >
>> > "Again, the unit TURNS ON!! Incredible considering
>> > the age of the thing. "
>> >
>> >I guess I should consider my PDP-11/04 a bloody miracle then ;)
>>
>> And I'm going out to the garage to bow in humble supplication to me
PDP-8/i!
>
>Isn't it something that you try to sell the obscure in your local area
to have
>people ask what you'd pay them to throw it away for you but newer items
sell at
>reasonable amounts. Get on something like ePay and the weird and no
longer
>desirable (by the average person) goes for weord amounts and newer
machines
>rarely get a look (ie 286 and 386 machines).
>
>

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