On 10/01/02, Ethan Dicks scribbled:
>
> At the Uni Surplus today, I spotted a lonely DEC 3000-300 with monitor
> and cables marked $35. It was more than I wanted to spend on it, but
> I hauled it over to the test table and plugged it all in. The monitor
> isn't stable, but it did go through its power-on tests, all the way
> to the "lazy sergant" prompt (>>>). It has 112MB of RAM and a 100MHz
> CPU. I was about to put it back when the Surplus manager apologized
> and said that she'd been meaning to mark it down. "$10 and it's yours,"
> so now it's mine.
>
Lucky bugger... :-P
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