May have just been the way I read into it as well, but even at that I've
come across pallets of 5150's just this year that I could have had for $10
for the whole pallet, minus monitors and keyboards but I have no desire or
need and no time to monkey with them since I already have over a dozen of
them in different configs, and all (but one) working. That isn't that rare
and there are still many in daily use as terminals and GP utility machines
in my area. A local volunteer fire dept uses one with an older Wordstar to
keep logs and do GP letters and it works great for them, even without a
hard drive.
-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
-> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Chad Fernandez
-> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 9:43 AM
-> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
-> Subject: Re: IBM 5150 PC
->
->
-> Russ,
->
-> I don't hink he meant that dual floppies were rare. I think his mention
-> of, "Rare", in the title is simply the oligatory, "Rare", that Ebay
-> requires every seller to use when selling somthing for profit, that
-> isn't really worth all that much :-)
->
-> Chad Fernandez
-> Michigan, USA
->
-> Russ Blakeman wrote:
-> >
-> > Someone beat you to it with 10 untested main units on ebay -
-> how many buyers
-> > you think will know to get the right monitor? I wonder where
-> they get the
-> > idea that dual floppy is rare on them? All of the ones I have
-> (except 2)
-> > have dual floppies, the other two I would consider more rare
-> as they have FH
-> > 5mb hard drives and a controller.
-> >
-> > See item 1262107020 at
-> >
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1262107020
->
Received on Mon Aug 06 2001 - 14:55:08 BST