Finds in Pittsburgh, PA

From: Pat Barron <pat_at_transarc.ibm.com>
Date: Mon Jun 12 10:17:15 2000

For anyone local (or who can get here relatively easily) and would be
interested in this ....

I stopped by the Goodwill Computer Store over the weekend, and saw that
they have a bunch (maybe two dozen) SPARCstation IPC's and IPX's, for
which they are asking $25.00/each. The people in the store didn't know
anything about their configurations (as they said, "We're pretty clueless
about those boxes"....), so I don't know if they come with any memory or
disk, and I didn't bother trying to open any of them up. Some appear
to have graphics accelerators, though (based on looking at occupied Sbus
slots on the back of the machine). There are also a couple of
SPARCstation 1+ and SPARCstation 2 machines, in about the same price
range, plus a about half a dozen HP/Apollo Series 700 machines for which
they are asking $37.50. None of these machines appear to include any
keyboards or mice. There are a few Sun monitors on the shelf, but they
are being sold separately.

To the best of my knowledge, the store does not ship, so you'd have to
physically visit there to make a purchase. I don't know who you'd talk to
there if you wanted to work out a "special deal" of some kind (e.g.,
purchasing several machines at once, for a lower price), since the
day-to-day store staff do not have the authority to renegotiate prices.

--Pat.
Received on Mon Jun 12 2000 - 10:17:15 BST