Jinx wrote:
>
> Last night I went along to an auction of 500 lots of computers.
> Hoped to pick up maybe one or two cheap low-end Pentiums
> for messing about with. The lots on offer ranged from 120MHz
> to 600MHz PII machines. all either 1998 or 1999 models, with
> 2-3GB empty drives, CD and sound cards (no speakers). Some
> of them were marked as faulty and non-starting. I thought the
> bids would be around NZ$150 (US$65) to possibly NZ$750
> (US$315). In total amazement I saw bids of NZ$2000 (US$840)
> and really started to think "hey, am I missing something ?" But
> no, these PCs were exactly as described in the catalogue.

Wow!! A pentium 166 etc here sells in the
classifieds for maybe $150 US. Who were the
idiots buying old broken computers for higher
prices than new ones?? Moms and Pops??
-Roman

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