WOW! Thanks Mark!


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Willis <mwillis@FOXINTERNET.NET>
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tuesday, December 28, 1999 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] Hamfests (was Re: [OT] Old Computers)


>Will http://www.arrl.org/hamfests.html do?  <G>
>
>  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 <engalt@EARTHLINK.NET>
>> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU <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?! <G>
>> >>
>> >> 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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