12 Oct
1999
12 Oct
'99
3:45 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.
12 Oct
12 Oct
5:58 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.
Depends on the locale. Here in SoCal we have a LOT of these workstation
monitors turning up and a few places have even brought in a tech to modify
a batch for use on a PC and sold them at a higher price. I don't see the
standard units as a bargain even at $25, unless you NEED one. They are OLD,
BIG, HEAVY, and generally support only a single (low in modern terms)
resolution.
At $75 IMHO he is looking for suckers, people that don't know what the
monitor is, or what is required for its use, and are lured into purchase by
what they think is a low price for a BIG color monitor. So maybe he sells
one or two at that price, and each of those customers then tell ten friends
about getting ripped off at so and so's place. Great business plan.
6:55 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.
-----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
Hell, I'd like to have an HP-UX box and so would one of my friends.
The main problem is before I drop $$$ sight unseen I need to have
a valid hardware configuration (which most scrappers can't give).
Bill
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>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.
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