Trenton Computer Festivalt

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_netwiz.net>
Date: Wed Apr 14 00:48:17 1999

>Last year's flea market was the year of the cheap 486 (66mhz and below)
>and '030 Mac (lots of IIsi and IIci CPUs, often with net cards and
>40 or 80mb drives, for $25). You can sort of judge the strata of
>"obsolescence" by what is common in a particular year; though you will
>see older, it seems to be few and far between.
>
>I suspect that this will be the year of the low-end Pentium (75-100) and
>(I hope) the '040 Macintosh. (I'd like to find a cheap Quadra.) There

Please report back on what you find, but it seems to me prices bottomed out
last summer during a massive dumping of 4 to 8 year old machines, and since
then prices have come back up to more like $40 for a low end 486 without
monitor etc. I would not expect to see a Quadra for less than about $75 for
a Q610 or Q700, but the little IIsi is still under priced at $25 for a 5/80
IMHO.
Received on Wed Apr 14 1999 - 00:48:17 BST