Will http://www.arrl.org/hamfests.html do?
Mark
Lawrence Lile wrote:
>
> Anybody know a good central URL that will list hamfests, that I may locate
> one here in the tech-starved midwest?
>
> -- Lawrence Lile
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Kraut
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Date: Monday, December 27, 1999 10:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [OT] Old Computers
>
> >We used to get a lot of refurbished laptops cheap at work. Try Compact
> Works.
> >Also, www.sharplaptop.com. You can also search refurbished laptops on
> Yahoo. I
> >agree that a hamfest is the best place. I just got a pentium 100 with 32
> megs of
> >ram, 800 meg HD and monitor for $75.00. They had 6 tables full of them.
> No, I
> >don't have a name or adress.
> >
> >Sean Breheny wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Andy,
> >>
> >> You work without a monitor?!
> >>
> >> Are you saying that I am setting too low a goal price? Well, I though I
> had
> >> heard of people getting machines like this for this price range. I'm
> pretty
> >> sure it could be done at a hamfest or computer show with a good number of
> >> used vendors. Unfortunately, I don't know of any nearby the near future.
> >>
> >> As a matter of fact, it wouldn't matter much if it didn't have a hard
> >> drive, I'm pretty sure his problems are not hard drive related,so we
> could
> >> just reuse his drive. SO, I am just looking for case/ps, MB, CPU, and 16
> to
> >> 32 MB ram.
> >>
> >> Sean
> >>
> >> At 01:35 PM 12/27/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >> >>talking about,say, 166MHz Pentiums, etc. with no monitor, but which
> include
> >> >>ram and possibly hard drive? I'm looking to spend in the ballpark of
> $100.
> >> >
> >> >Sean, that sounds like my current desktop machine!
> >> >
> >> >Andy
> >> >
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