Tom Walker wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

-> CA> Odd thing is that those who decide to sell an old computer
-> CA> suddenly think it's worth at least $100 regardless how old it is.

-> I talked to a guy the other day who got two P120 systems,  one AT, 
-> one ATX, w/ 2 and 3G drives,  98 and w2k,  for around $25-30 each.

TW>  That is about what they were going for here. I used to get 400 Mhz
TW> CPU units with 6 gig Hard drives, Floppy, CD Drive and Net card for
TW> $100 to $129                                                       
TW>        Becasue of the upcomming Start of School and the Bad Economy
TW> the Parenmts swooped in on my supplier and bought everything is
TW> sight costing less then $160                                       
TW>      When I asked if he expected any 400 -500 Mhz units in that
TW> price range in the near future he said NO.

That stuff shows up from time to time,  the guy I was referring to having
gotten them when some big corporation was upgrading their stuff and dumping
a whole mess of machines out there.  That being an ongoing process, 
because most of them are using m$,  with its ever-increasing appetites for
hardware resources,  the machines will continue to pop up from time to time
until corporations wise up and start running linux.  

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