Russell McMahon writes:
>IBM model 30 PC only $US585!!!

	Unless I am totally confused, that's about $580 more than they
usually go for at swap meets, etc here.

	That reminds me of the twelve spent 40-W fluorescent tubes I need
to put out for the garbage collectors.  Maybe I should advertise them
on Ebay as having been preconditioned over the last ten years to
operate on the 240-volt electrical network used in much of the world
('cause they quit working on our 120-volt electrical system).

	I can imagine someone using a IBM Model 30 exactly the same
way I use our old 1987-vintage IBM PC/XT.  I have DOS and Kermit on it
and use it as a serial terminal.  When its time comes one day, that will
be that.  It's probably worth maybe $10 or $15 for the power supply, but
as long as the mother board still functions, it makes a pretty good
driver for my X10 controller or other incidental small tasks that need
a serial port and terminal software.  The hard drive still works so
one can even use it as a data logger if necessary, but something that
old is not worth much to most people.

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group
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