Re: Unix/Linux Box

[julian814@hotmail.com (Ralph Glatt)]

"M. Pender" <mpender@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<LeF1b.1343$081.508@nwrddc02.gnilink.net>...
> 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.
> 
> I hear these stories about people buying old Macs at their local thrift
> stores for $20 -- that just doesn't happen around here.  :-(

It's pretty much the same with the thrift shop we have in town. I do
check out their computers and try to tell them a reasonable price for
them, but apparently the woman who runs the store thinks that just
because it's a computer, it's valuable. ;-) At least she gives me
first dibs on any Apple // stuff that comes in!


Ralph Glatt