where to find oldish pc's (was: Re: [geeks] Help with MCSE)

[Ryn]

Could I possibly trouble you for the resource? My P166 firewall needs an
upgrade. The
CPU is starting  to flake out and cause preiodic reboots :(

----- Original Message -----
From: "alex j avriette" <avriettea at speakeasy.net>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 2:30 PM
Subject: where to find oldish pc's (was: Re: [geeks] Help with MCSE)


> note: i probably should have turned down the "filthy" rhetoric in last
> post, sorry.
>
> > Ya, you noticed the same thing I did - new PCs are so damn cheap
> > sometimes it's not worth dicking around with fixing or aquiring old
> > ones.
> >
> > You must be looking in different places than I.  I've been picking up
> > 350MHz - 400MHz PIIs for $70.  Granted they only have 64MB of RAM, but
> > that's cheap, and I've already got a bunch laying around :)
>
> Yeah, I must be looking in the wrong place. Where can I find these
> machines at those prices? Perhaps telling me offlist if youre willing to
> so as to not deplete resources. I've always found ebay prices to be
> overinflated (and sometimes in excess of retail price, as in the case of
> powerbooks!).
>
> thanks,
> alex
>
>
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