Re: Unix/Linux Box

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"M. Pender" <mpender@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Bill Garber <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> > Modems, Hmmm, I do have a 14.4k in the box with the manual
> > and disks for Windows 3.1 and Win95. Can you use that? I had
> > found that in the dumpster behind GoodWill. I guess they figured
> > no one would buy it. ;-) They don't know me. I'll check out some
> > of the loose modems I have, and I think I have home-made copies
> > of software for some of them.
>
> They probably priced it so high that nobody would.  I'm frequently amazed
by
> the number of untested computer items that Goodwill offers for sale,
without
> warranties, without cables or power supplies, and without documentation,
yet
> they frequently ask more $$ than when the items were new.

It's marked $1.00,  I guess nobody wanted it is all.

> I hear these stories about people buying old Macs at their local thrift
> stores for $20 -- that just doesn't happen around here.  :-(

Hmmm, we don't even get any vintage computer stuff here,
in fact, the last one I saw was a C64 which I paid $20 for and
then saw them on eBay for $10 with $7 shipping. ARGH!

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez };-)
Web Site - http://garberstreet.netfirms.com
Email - willy46pa@comcast.net



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