4 Jul
2002
4 Jul
'02
4:31 p.m.
I've got some FREE STUFF in Austin, Texas.
Only thing is, you *HAVE* to pick it up, *IN PERSON*.
I"m tired of people saying they'll arrange something,
have someone come by, etc.
Its up for grabs for the first person who shows up and can actually put
this stuff to use, or emails me with a *convincing* reason why I should
hold/ship it for them and has something to trade for what they want.
First batch, some Sun VME boards and a 4/6x0 memory board:
http://www.mrbill.net/~mrbill/freestuff/ (pictures)
(the DELNI and the GRiD laptops are spoken for)
Some of the cards are FDDI:
http://www.mrbill.net/~mrbill/fddi/ (pictures)
Second, a Toshiba T3100 orange-plasma-screen laptop. CMOS battery is
dead, but it works fine if you have a DOS boot disk and put the time in
manually. Makes a GREAT serial console for a *NIX machine:
http://www.mrbill.net/~mrbill/laptop/ (pictures)
(well, its more of a "portable"; it only takes AC power and is rather
heavy.. if you've seen "Medicine Man" with Sean Connery, one of these is the
machine he's using in his "lab" IIRC...)
Third, I have a pair of IBM P70 portable (486?) systems with orange
plasma displays. When I got these, one powered up but gave a "bad HD"
error code, one didnt power up at all. I attempted to swap out the hard
drives between the two, but after I tried that, neither would power up.
I beleive they are both missing the back system cover, but would be great
for replacement parts to keep another P70 running.
Fourth, I have an IBM PC Convertible laptop, with dual 720K floppy drives,
LCD screen (of course), battery pack, and the I/O-port "pack", in original
IBM canvas carry case. Last time I fired it up (early '99?) the backlight
was intermittent, but otherwise everything worked fine. Great keyboard; might
make a good serial console for something.
Again, free, but you must pick these up in Austin, TX, at my house.
I will NOT ship anything (unless you have a REALLY good trade offer,
and pay for shipping). If you want something held, you will have to
trade me something interesting for what you want.
I'm tired of people telling me "oh, I'll pick those up soon" or
"I'll have $relative who lives near there contact you", etc.
First come, first serve. I need this stuff out of the way, but its
too good to trash..
Bill
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Bill Bradford
mrbill(a)mrbill.net
Austin, TX
4 Jul
4 Jul
11:41 p.m.
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Bill Bradford wrote:
Hey Bill, been awhile since I've seen any posts from you, guess you are
still around afterall...
Only thing is, you *HAVE* to pick it up, *IN PERSON*.
I"m tired of
people saying they'll arrange something, have someone come by, etc.
Its up for grabs for the first person who shows up and can actually
put this stuff to use, or emails me with a *convincing* reason why I
should hold/ship it for them and has something to trade for what they
want.
<snip>
Third, I have a pair of IBM P70 portable (486?)
systems with orange
plasma displays. When I got these, one powered up but gave a "bad HD"
error code, one didnt power up at all. I attempted to swap out the
hard drives between the two, but after I tried that, neither would
power up. I beleive they are both missing the back system cover, but
would be great for replacement parts to keep another P70 running.
These are actually 386 aren't they?
Again, free, but you must pick these up in Austin, TX,
at my house.
I will NOT ship anything (unless you have a REALLY good trade offer,
and pay for shipping). If you want something held, you will have to
trade me something interesting for what you want.
I'm tired of people telling me "oh, I'll pick those up soon" or
"I'll
have $relative who lives near there contact you", etc.
First come, first serve. I need this stuff out of the way, but its
too good to trash..
Maybe it is wrong of me to take this to the list, but I feel offended by
this email. If you ask anyone who knows me well, I'm more or less very
easy going, and don't offend too easily.
On to the point... You promised me the pair of P70 systems quite some time
ago, but seem to be nearly impossible to get in contact with. I did pass
on the contact information you gave me to my uncle who lives not all that
far from you. He told me he feels bad because he has tried to make contact
with you time after time, but has not been able to reach you (left
messages, (with your wife?), and so on.)
Now maybe I've taken this totally out of context, or there is just some
miscommunication going on, but I haven't been able to get a response from
you directly anytime recently, and your email here feels very offensive.
-Toth
5 Jul
5 Jul
4:21 a.m.
On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 03:41:29AM -0500, Tothwolf wrote:
On to the point... You promised me the pair of P70
systems quite some time
ago, but seem to be nearly impossible to get in contact with. I did pass
on the contact information you gave me to my uncle who lives not all that
far from you. He told me he feels bad because he has tried to make contact
with you time after time, but has not been able to reach you (left
messages, (with your wife?), and so on.)
You kept telling me "my uncle will get in touch with you soon", over and
over. From what I know, he tried to call here *once*, and didnt leave any
return-call information.
I'm not going to go out of my way to call *him* and arrange for pickup;
these have been here for months waiting for you to get them or arrange for
someone to get them. If you want them, have *him* contact *me* and tell me
when he can come pick them up.
Now maybe I've taken this totally out of context,
or there is just some
miscommunication going on, but I haven't been able to get a response from
you directly anytime recently, and your email here feels very offensive.
I've also been holding these for a long time, and got ONE phone call from your
uncle months ago (who never followed up or contacted me again to arrange
pickup). You've had your chance to get them (its been 4-5 months, IIRC).
I can only be nice and hold things for people for so long...
You're also not the first person to do this to me ("hold it, I'll pick it
up soon.." and they never show), so thats why I'm pissed off.
I've also got a Sun 2/170 here that someone else never showed up for after
repeated emails and phone calls.
Bill
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Bill Bradford
mrbill(a)mrbill.net
Austin, TX
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