[rescue] Gah, why don't they just give them away?

[Corda Albert J DLVA]

Oops.. forgot to add that although he posts each one as if it is a
single unit, he seems to be using the same picture for all his
postings, so don't assume that what you see will be exactly what
you get.

Other than that, I am pleased, so far... I'll know more at
power-up time.

-al-
-acorda at 1bigred.com



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Corda Albert J DLVA [mailto:CordaAJ at nswc.navy.mil]
> Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 7:01 PM
> To: 'rescue at sunhelp.org'
> Subject: RE: [rescue] Gah, why don't they just give them away?
> 
> 
> I picked up one of the first ones this guy put up on ebay...
> it had a "buy-it-now" price of $199 (I think his buy-now
> price has gone up a bit, but not much :-)  Shipping was
> about $35.00, and he delivered relatively quickly. My guess
> is that he has a few of these, and is posting them one or
> two at a time.
> 
> I haven't powered it up yet, but I did completely disassemble
> the critter to clean it (it needed a _really_ good cleaning).
> It was in relatively good shape.  175 Mhz CPU, earliest
> rev. motherboard (the -003 one), Lucent power supply, SI graphics.
> Case was a bit scuffed up, but no broken plastic. I _think_ the
> light bar is dead, but I'm not concerned as I intend to replace
> the bulbs with LEDs anyway.  I also happen to have a spare sled,
> so hopefully, everything will go together nicely.
> 
> BTW, I now know how to take one of these completely apart,
> if anyone is interested. (Of course, I won't know if I killed
> it until I power it up ;-)
> 
> -al-
> -acorda at 1bigred.com
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: lesliec at theplanet.com [mailto:lesliec at theplanet.com]
> > Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 6:02 PM
> > To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> > Subject: RE: [rescue] Gah, why don't they just give them away?
> > 
> > 
> > did it go to someone here in the 'family' ?
> > 
> > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2041214723
> > 
> > L
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