G'day Bob,

Saturday September 21 1996 07:23, Bob Lawrence wrote to All:

 BL>   And the crazy part is that these wankers are asking (and
 BL> presumably getting) up to $1,000 for a 486 with 4Mb and 250Mb hard
 BL> drive, when you can buy a NEW 586 with a 8Mb and a gigabyte for
 BL> the same! And a 2-year warranty.

I managed to fall into a deal and last Monday picked up my new toy.  A
"used" $2000 laptop for $500US.  It's a 486/40 with 4mb and 250mb hard
drive and colour display.  It started out with the basic Windows VGA
display but after visiting the Website for Compaq, I ended up with SVGA
drivers and an SVGA display.

The guy that had it was a real wanker and only used the thing to play
Solitaire with... he had got it in a divorce settlement and "just
needed the cash".

He had a good week to change his mind but luckily he didn't.  I don't
think this has been used for much more than maybe 10 hours prior to my
getting it.  The keys still have that "new" feeling.

OH, and better yet, it actually has a 16550 UART, external
comms/serial/parallel/video/docking bay ports, and a type III PCMIA
slot, and is upgradeable.  The only thing I don't have is the warranty
since I'm not the original owner.

Finally a PC that can keep up with my Commodore for telecomms. My C128
has had a plug in UART cartridge for 3 years now.

One of the magazines I write for sent me a 20mhz accelerator for the
C64 recently for review too...

Geez, so many new toys, so little time... :-)


Cheers,
Gaelyne

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