The guys who can't afford more than $100 are not a big part of the market. However, it's not fair to ignore 'em. I just don't see how one can make a living selling used parts when a replacement for the whole she-bang costs >$10 like the one I snagged last week. Are people really willing to pay $100 to repair something they could easily replace for $10 if they were to look? Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glen Goodwin" <acme_ent(a)bellsouth.net> To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 11:04 PM Subject: Re: APPLEVISION Monitor Nothing, but the old motherboards won't talk to them without some sort of band-aid, and the current generation HDD's won't work at full speed with the old interfaces, not to mention that the 3-year-old "DMA-capable" motherboards won't operate with DMA because the implementations were fouled up. Some were fixed, some weren't. None of that stuff is intolerable, but it makes little sense to live with it. What kind of upgrade can you offer for $100? I'd imagine you can offer something 2nd hand but still functional. You can't easily maintain something for less than it would cost to replace it though. Where do you find a replacement AT power supply? How can you make a profit replacing 'em? Where do you find a new replacement for a P54C CPU? They're obsolete when eBay's the only place you can buy new RAM that works in your computer. They're obsolete when you can no longer buy new power supplies that plug into your motherboard. They're obsolete when the BIOS doesn't accomodate the smallest new hard disk you can buy and they're obsolete when the BIOS you have to buy for 'em, 2nd hand, costs more than a new HDD.