[rescue] Origin 200 Rescue

[Dave McGuire]

On March 18, Michael Dombrowski wrote:
> Thanks to all those who replied to my questions about how to get 
> specs of the machine. I went and inspected it today but did not 
> purchase it. The machine was a 180mhz/2mb cache with 256mb ram. It 
> also had a tape drive, cdrom, 6x 9gb disks and included lots of the 
> original manuals and whatnot. The front door was broken off and the 
> feet also, the men said this happened in shipping and it was never 
> powered on. Other than that is was in very good condition. The guys 
> who had it were insurance people, they had no idea what they had. 
> They were telling me how it sold for $17,000 a year ago and was still 
> worth a whole lot. The men wanted $1000 for the system which I 
> thought was pretty high considering that 
> 250mhz/256mb/9gb/Creator/cdrom U2s are selling for $250 and U60s with 
> 300mhz/512mb/2x9gb/Creator/21"/cdrom are selling for $900. I tried 
> bargaining with them but they wouldn't budge a bit. I think it'll 
> probably sit there for many more months. Thus ends my story.

  I'd have dropped $1K on that machine in a heartbeat.  I don't expect
it to sit there very long.

       -Dave

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Dave McGuire                    "Watch those lateral G's man,
St. Petersburg, FL               I've got sandwiches in my lap!" -Sridhar