11 Apr
2001
11 Apr
'01
2:34 p.m.
I'm traveling up to Denver from Houston soon and wanted to see if
anyone knew of some places to check out for old systems while I
was there? What are the good thrift store chains there? Any other
places?
Thanks.
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David Williams - Computer Packrat
"When the mind is free of any thought or judgement,
then and only then can we know things as they are."
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11 Apr
11 Apr
3:01 p.m.
There once were lots of decent thrift stores, but, over the course of the past
year or so, there seems to have evolved some sort of corruption. The best
thrift store in Denver is the ARC (Association of Retarded Citizens) chain store
on South Broadway. What's been happening far and wide is that the folks in the
stores are stripping the systems of hard drives, memory, and interesting boards
and marking the remainder at above market prices. The result is that they end
up in the dumpster, after not selling for several weeks, where the help later
snags the, for whatever purpose.
Where, a couple of years ago, I used to see all manner of MAC's for example,
Quadras, LC-whatevers, (I neither know nor care about MAC's but I do know they
aren't mix and match like PC's.) etc, for $5-10, now they're priced at
$50-$60,
which is more than a truckload is worth, since most don't work. Moreover, it's
a problem for MACs because the keyboards, monitors, and mice are normally
separated from the systems they came in with, and sold at a premium price in
addition to the ridiculous price for the main box.
You never know, though, and you'll not find much if you don't look.
Dick
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From: "David Williams" <dlw(a)trailingedge.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 5:34 PM
Subject: Places in Denver
I'm traveling up to Denver from Houston soon and
wanted to see if
anyone knew of some places to check out for old systems while I
was there? What are the good thrift store chains there? Any other
places?
Thanks.
-----
David Williams - Computer Packrat
"When the mind is free of any thought or judgement,
then and only then can we know things as they are."
dlw(a)trailingedge.com
http://www.trailingedge.com
6:07 p.m.
New subject: Mac IIci machines available at CPB
Ed Kirby has a bunch (14?) Mac IIci machines with hdd, decent amount of
ram etc for $75.00 a pop. Known to work. You pay shipping. Monitors
available (about $100.00 each). Cables too.
Regards,
Jeff
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12 Apr
12 Apr
12:03 a.m.
New subject: Mac IIci machines available at CPB
Ed Kirby has a bunch (14?) Mac IIci machines with hdd,
decent amount of
ram etc for $75.00 a pop. Known to work. You pay shipping. Monitors
available (about $100.00 each). Cables too.
I hate to poop on other peoples deals, but that price really sucks. I sell
a IIci setup with a nice pair of nics ready to load NetBSD and use as
firewall or a regular mac for no more than $30, and the 640x480 monitor
with a cable is $25.
4:27 a.m.
New subject: Mac IIci machines available at CPB
At 02:03 AM 4/12/01 -0700, Mike Ford wrote:
I hate to poop on other peoples deals, but that price
really sucks. I sell
a IIci setup with a nice pair of nics ready to load NetBSD and use as
firewall or a regular mac for no more than $30, and the 640x480 monitor
with a cable is $25.
I'd send that... $30 seems to be an average price for a IIci-class
system around here.
- John
5:28 a.m.
New subject: Mac IIci machines available at CPB
John Foust wrote:
At 02:03 AM 4/12/01 -0700, Mike Ford wrote:
I agree. It seems that the cost of shipping is about the value of the system. ~
$30.
Eric
I hate to poop on other peoples deals, but that
price really sucks. I sell
a IIci setup with a nice pair of nics ready to load NetBSD and use as
firewall or a regular mac for no more than $30, and the 640x480 monitor
with a cable is $25.
I'd send that... $30 seems to be an average price for a IIci-class
system around here.
- John
4:56 a.m.
New subject: Mac IIci machines available at CPB
Ed Kirby has a
bunch (14?) Mac IIci machines with hdd, decent amount of
ram etc for $75.00 a pop. Known to work. You pay shipping. Monitors
available (about $100.00 each). Cables too.
I hate to poop on other peoples deals, but that price really sucks. I sell
a IIci setup with a nice pair of nics ready to load NetBSD and use as
firewall or a regular mac for no more than $30, and the 640x480 monitor
with a cable is $25. 
2:49 p.m.
New subject: Mac IIci machines available at CPB
From: Cameron Kaiser
<spectre(a)stockholm.ptloma.edu>
Subject: Re: Mac IIci machines available at CPB
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 06:56:17 -0700 (PDT)
Reply-to: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
I have to agree with Mike, and not merely because
I'm a satisfied customer
of his :-) you can do a lot better on a IIci, even with a goodly loaded-out
amount of RAM. I bought a bare case for $1 and a IIsi for free, scavenged
the IIsi's 8MB of RAM and pulled another 4MB out of another dead system,
took the IIsi's case and FD, put them in the IIci, and voila. You don't get
deals better than this :-) but I've seen IIcis at Santee go for around $8
or so with maybe 8MB RAM, 40 or 80MB HD, FD, etc., and upgrading them is dirt
cheap. Many still had the 32K cache cards installed.
I have LC III ('030 25MHz, cachless), knew it's performance
differences except I have no idea about IIci. Most of things is very
similar except for FPU and slots, cache support but how efficient
IIci go? What areas IIci is better at, video? Overall performance?
Mind you, I know IIci specs but feel of this machine in use I don't
know.
Thanks and cheers,
Wizard
8:53 p.m.
New subject: Mac IIci machines available at CPB
I have LC III ('030 25MHz, cachless), knew it's
performance
differences except I have no idea about IIci. Most of things is very
similar except for FPU and slots, cache support but how efficient
IIci go? What areas IIci is better at, video? Overall performance?
IIci major points, 3 open nubus slots, has a fpu (runs NetBSD).
It weighs about 15 lbs, 10 less than a IIx, builtin video frees up a slot.
It has 8 30 pin simm slots with no special requirements (not like IIx with
the pal on 4 mb and up).
Just a nice little machine with just enough HP (25 Mhz 68030) to handle
most simple tasks on a network. When you start thinking about what you need
for a cheap little router, the IIci is perfect.
Easy step up is the Q700, mostly the same but with more juice (68040 25 mhz).
13 Apr
13 Apr
6 a.m.
New subject: Mac IIci machines available at CPB
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 jpero(a)sympatico.ca wrote:
I have LC III ('030 25MHz, cachless), knew
it's performance
differences except I have no idea about IIci. Most of things is very
similar except for FPU and slots, cache support but how efficient
IIci go? What areas IIci is better at, video? Overall performance?
IIRC, the LCIII is identical to the Performa 450 I've got.
I'd say performance is very similar, but the built-in video of the LCIII
is far more flexible, capoable of higher resolutions as well as being
VGA-friendly. Mind you, the IIci may be upgraded with a far more advanced
graphics card.
6:30 a.m.
New subject: Mac IIci machines available at CPB
IIRC, the LCIII is identical to the Performa 450
I've got.
I'd say performance is very similar, but the built-in video of the LCIII
is far more flexible, capoable of higher resolutions as well as being
VGA-friendly. Mind you, the IIci may be upgraded with a far more advanced
graphics card.
Yeah, the IIci's internal video is somewhat anaemic but I stuck an 8*24*GC
in my IIci workstation and the output now is beautiful 24-bit colour, fully
accelerated in System 7.1.
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11 Apr
11 Apr
11:32 p.m.
There once were lots of decent thrift stores, but, over
the course of the past
year or so, there seems to have evolved some sort of corruption. The best
thrift store in Denver is the ARC (Association of Retarded Citizens) chain
store
on South Broadway. What's been happening far and wide is that the folks
in the
stores are stripping the systems of hard drives, memory, and interesting
boards
and marking the remainder at above market prices. The result is that they end
up in the dumpster, after not selling for several weeks, where the help later
snags the, for whatever purpose.
Most places like this have vendors sales out the back door. Things get
collected up and vendors bid on them, or many times with computers they all
go in a bin and some one place has a deal to buy them for weight etc.
3:10 p.m.
Here in Colorado Springs is a place called OEM Computers. Very good
stuff.
I'm traveling up to Denver from Houston soon and wanted to see if
anyone knew of some places to check out for old systems while I
was there? What are the good thrift store chains there? Any other
places?
Thanks.
-----
David Williams - Computer Packrat
"When the mind is free of any thought or judgement,
then and only then can we know things as they are."
dlw(a)trailingedge.com
http://www.trailingedge.com
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jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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13 Apr
13 Apr
7:36 a.m.
Hi David,
What kind of stuff are you looking for? Mile High Flea market has
general stuff, and you can usually find a few apple/pc/trs80 type
systems there... There doesn't seem to be a lot of big iron floating
around here, probably because colorado came into high tech fairly
late in the game...
clint
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, David Williams wrote:
I'm traveling up to Denver from Houston soon and
wanted to see if
anyone knew of some places to check out for old systems while I
was there? What are the good thrift store chains there? Any other
places?
Thanks.
-----
David Williams - Computer Packrat
"When the mind is free of any thought or judgement,
then and only then can we know things as they are."
dlw(a)trailingedge.com
http://www.trailingedge.com
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