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 > >> > > >> >================================================================== > >> > New Microprocessor support forum mail list - details on our site > >> >------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> >andy@rc-hydros.com http://www.rc-hydros.com - Race Boats > >> >andy@montanadesign.com http://www.montanadesign.com - Electronics > >> >================================================================== > >> > > >> | > >> | Sean Breheny > >> | Amateur Radio Callsign: KA3YXM > >> | Electrical Engineering Student > >> \--------------=---------------- > >> Save lives, please look at http://www.all.org > >> Personal page: http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/shb7 > >> mailto:shb7@cornell.edu ICQ #: 3329174 > >> __________________________________________ > >> NetZero - Defenders of the Free World > >> Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at > >> http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html -- I re-ship for small US & overseas businesses, world-wide. (For private individuals at cost; ask.)