Recent Acquistions (Intel)

From: Mzthompson_at_aol.com <(Mzthompson_at_aol.com)>
Date: Fri Oct 4 15:17:50 2002

After I got the PowerMacs, I went back with an idea. Since he considers
486's and lower to be useless I made a suggestion. I would tear them down
to cards, memory, drives, cables, etc. and I would take the stuff to an
upcoming hamfest (see next posting) and sell it cheap. He agreed and we
decided on a 50-50 split and I got 'skimming' rights to the machines as
I tear them down to cover my time. We also decided to recycle the cases
and motherboards to keep them out of the landfill.

So after a few afternoons I got more PC stuff piled around here than even
I can tolerate. Let me just say that I am not so naive as to believe that
the majority of this mess will sell. I suspect the shop owner thinks
otherwise. But who knows, someone might walk up and see that box full
of hundreds of SIMMS and make me an offer that I just can't refuse.

During those afternoons, he would come back and offer to give me this and
that. I think he was happy to just be able to walk into the store room
and see the empty space grow. Out of all his offers was a monitor for a
PowerMac that had been recently uncovered.

The thing that probably made all of this worth it is what I call the Borland
Bonanza. Among all the machines were boxes of software. I got about two
dozen sets of disks in unopened plastic wrap. It includes Paradox, dbase,
Turbo C++, Turbo Pascal, ObjectVision, Delphi, etc. For some products there
is both DOS and Windoze versions. Given that it is older versions, I suppose
that it is available on their web site. Still there is something to be said
for having the original disks.

Mike
Received on Fri Oct 04 2002 - 15:17:50 BST