12 Oct
1999
12 Oct
'99
6:45 a.m.
Well . . . what I meant was the monitors. That's what he's asking $75 for
and without the Appollo stations they're of little use, being fixed
frequency types. If he asked $25 for them they'd still be difficult to
move.
I don't see that the monitors have much value as scrap. Unfortunately, in
one localized area, there's not such a concentration of "old-computer"
fanatics to provide homes for all of them. The fact that they all work has
clouded the vision of the shop owner, and the fact that he doesn't have root
passwords, etc, needed to take control of them makes them of little interest
to potential users, even though it does seem to show that they're working
machines. Besides, for a couple of hundred bucks one gets a P-II or
something like that with no real effort required to make it work.
They'll end up as scrap.
Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Ford <mikeford(a)socal.rr.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 12:45 AM
Subject: Re: Needed / Available
>There's a local surplus guy who's got about
a half dozen Appollo stations
>with the HP label on them and with HP monitors which he's trying to sell
for
$75. I doubt
he'll sell even one.
Sad fact is that they are often worth more scrapped than running.