On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Chuck McManis wrote:
these things are headed for landfill big time. Along
about 2010 or 2015 and
trying to put together a representative 486 system from the "early 90's"
is
going to be damn near impossible. Look at the PDP-8's which spanned 15
years of production and are now pretty difficult to get hold of.
That's because only several thousand PDP-8's were ever produced. Trust
me, I don't think you're EVER going to have problems finding a 486
motherboard, at least not in the next millenium.
I don't know if I should laugh or buy an old Dell
486 box and wrap it up in
plastic and dessicant and save it for 20 years.
And try to get more than $5 for it like people with TimexSinclair 1000s
are these days? Or more than $1 for a Commodore 64?
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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