At 02:13 PM 10/12/00 -0700, Sellam Ismail wrote:
>> I need to possibly get something out of this
>> system...say $125-$150,or more if it's possibly a rare
>> find(?), if in fact it's worth anything, I really
>> don't know, but believe it would be.
>
>Wishful thinking. Offer to pay for shipping. There really is not
>anything particularly special about this machine.
Yes, I already have one, too. It turns out the guy was
local (!) and he claims to have found someone else to
pick it up. I don't know if he actually sold it.
Personally, I'm in a throw-away mood as opposed to a
collection mood. I tossed 3" x 3" x 25" of old clone
8088 through 486 PCs and cases away last Tuesday.
My mind kept running the mantra "They will never be uncommon
or rare or all that interesting." I saved some IBM brand
PCs of each generation, a hardcard, and a few others.
I haven't even made my way to the pile of monitors yet.
I coalesced a box of Pentium 50-166 Mhz era motherboards,
some brand-new, and for heaven's sake, they would barely
fetch a few bucks on eBay. My other mantra was a friend's
rule that if you can't sell it on eBay, throw it out.
http://www.freeboxen.com/ looks interesting, but this
stuff is hardly worth the cost of shipping.
I wish I would've gotten the Milwaukee PDP-11/45 the other
day, though. I think my e-mail was first to reach the guy,
but someone else went the extra mile to pick up the phone to
arrange pick-up, so they got it.
- John
Received on Thu Oct 12 2000 - 18:39:06 BST