pete@othello.dartmouth.edu (Pete Schmitt) (05/15/91)
I need to find out what an Altos 586 is worth these days. This one
has Xenix 3.0e installed and the tape drive is broken. It has 840K
of ram and 6 async ports. It has a working 5 1/4 720K floppy. (xenix format)
It has a 30M internal harddrive.
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Peter Schmitt UNIX Consultant
Kiewit Computation Center Computing Services
Dartmouth College (603)646-2085
Hanover, NH 03755 Peter.Schmitt@Dartmouth.EDUfr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home) (05/17/91)
pete@othello.dartmouth.edu (Pete Schmitt) writes: >I need to find out what an Altos 586 is worth these days. This one >has Xenix 3.0e installed and the tape drive is broken. It has 840K >of ram and 6 async ports. It has a working 5 1/4 720K floppy. (xenix format) >It has a 30M internal harddrive. How about a hundred bucks to be kind. We simply tell the customer to trash them when they upgrade to real computers. fred -- W. Fred Rump office: fred.COMPU.COM 26 Warren St. home: fred@icdi10.COMPU.COM Beverly, NJ. 08010 bang: ...{dsinc uunet}!cdin-1!icdi10!fred 609-386-6846 "Freude... Alle Menschen werden Brueder..." - The Ode
peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) (05/18/91)
In article <1991May17.045655.11152@compu.com> fr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home) writes: > How about a hundred bucks to be kind. We simply tell the customer to trash > them when they upgrade to real computers. AAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!! How about donating them to someone? A school or something? Give them away to the poor kid down the street with a Commodore 64? I'm still utterly flabbergasted at the tendency for companies to trash perfectly good equipment just because they don't need it any more. And at the same time there are people willing to pay several tens of dollars for a CP/M box just so they can call local BBSes with more than a 40 line screen. -- Peter da Silva; Ferranti International Controls Corporation; +1 713 274 5180; Sugar Land, TX 77487-5012; `-_-' "Have you hugged your wolf, today?"