hughes@ux.acs.umn.edu (Steve Hughes) (04/22/91)
I'd be interested what the going price for a Xerox 820 CP/M micro might be. I've got the box, keyboard and a 1200 Novation Smart Cat modem to sell as a unit (I've been using it as a terminal). Anybody know what the market price for such a beast might be? Anybody interested? It is truly an 820-II, it is in good shape, and I have no drives for it. Like I said, I've been using the internal bios term program and the modem to talk to the mainframe, but I picked up a Mac finally, so it is of no use to me. The modem isn't great--it is not autodial, and only 1200 baud, but it works just fine if you still have fingers to dial a phone with :-) . Reply by e-mail please, to preserve bandwidth. Thanks! -Steve Steve Hughes hughes@ux.acs.umn.edu
TESSA.HEBERT@f601.n106.z1.fidonet.org (TESSA HEBERT) (04/24/91)
I'm using just such a beastie right now. It's a Xerox 820-II with 2 disc drives (did not come with modem). It was given to me & that may be some indication of it's true value; however, I'm glad to have it to bbs with. I understand that it was purchased from someone else for $60 total. I have also seen an ad for one for $100. So, I guess it's true value is whatever you can get for it, somewhere in the range between $60 & $100. You might try posting an ad on Gateway Houston in the wants-ads message base. Gateway Houston has a large videotel audience, because it's a rare bbs that can be accessed with a U.S. Videtel videobox. Many of the videobox users would gladly throw away their videoboxes if there were an affordable alternative (they cannot bbs anywhere else with the videoboxes). Gateway's phone numbers are: 723-3981, 723-2820, 723-3619 (it has 5 other lines for videobox access). But I think someone would to have a disc drive to use it for bbs-ing.