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Re: Lot's o' free old computers.



Sorry - I live in Crystal Lake, Il.


In article <8p3ih5$8o8$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  szewczyk@my-deja.com wrote:
> OK, here's the deal.  All of this stuff is common enough that people
> aren't even willing to give me $10 per system.  A couple of things
have
> sold from my original e-mails but I'm pretty much left with the list
> below.
>
> The scam is this - I want to give it to a good home, and I want to do
> it SOON.  The first guy to come to my house and pick it up gets it all
> for free.  You have to take it all and I'd appreciate it if you didn't
> take it all and throw 90% of it in the garbage because you wanted just
> the one thing.  But -hey- it'll be your stuff, your business.  E-Bay
it
> all tomorrow, I won't care one bit.  Also, I put quantities in the e-
> mail for reference.  If something is missing then I mis-counted or a
> close friend decided he wanted that piece.  You'll have to take my
word
> that you wont make a 2 hour road trip and have 90% of the stuff gone,
> it will only be a few pieces.
>
> **** I'm not going to ship ANY of it. ****  I'm not going to give out
> little pieces here or there, it's all or nothing.  The ground rules
are
> this - If there are two guys who want it, guy (A) can pick it up
> tonight, guy (B) can pick it up tomorrow - guy (A) wins.  If guy (A)
> and guy (B) can both be here tomorrow, then the stuff goes to the high
> bidder.  If it's worth $5 to guy (A) and guy (B) will only take it if
> it's free, then guy (A) should bring the $5 and take all the stuff.
If
> guy (A) doesn't show up or comes without the $5, I'll call guy (B).
>
> Simple.  Easy.  I won't play any fake "guy (B)" scams.  You'll just
> have to take my word for it.  We're not talking retirement money and
my
> first goal is to have the stuff gone, and gone to a good home.
>
> If no one comes for it, much to my dismay, I'll have to give it all to
> a thrift store that will either mark it all up and someone will have
to
> pay for the stuff or they'll just throw it all away because it's too
> old to do anything with.
>
> 1 Macintosh with a hard drive. (I never really played with it.  It
> works) Color Monitor IIe
> Apple IIc
> 3 - Apple IIe's with different cards in them.  I think they all hav at
> least the 128k 80 column card.
> 2 - DuoDisk drives
> 1 - Disk II
> 2 - Apple Green Monitors
> 5 - Commodore 64's (2 in the box)
> 1 - Commodore 64 - new design - broken key
> 5 - CBM 1541 Disk Drives (2 in well worn boxes)
> 1 - Vic-20
> 3 - C2N Tape Drives
> 3 - TI-99's (2 in the box, one in really great shape)
> 1 - Non-functional C128
> 1 - MPS 803 Printer
>
> Send e-mail to szewczykm@hcgi.com if you're interested.
>
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> Before you buy.
>


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