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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Wed, 31 May 2006 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > People are now throwing out 700MHz around here.
>
> Lucky you.  Old Pentiums are still selling for real money
> here.  At a computer show last weekend, I saw a 500MHz
> Celeron system for $300 ( !!! computer show special !!! ).
> Even 133MHz desktops sell for $30; laptops even more.

People gave us their 133-200MHz computers starting five years ago, we 
recycled most of them since then.  You can't give away a 233MHz here and 
people have given us lots of 300-400MHz that work (and some that don't) 
and a working 500.  The 700MHz had a bad video card and bad power supply.

Our newest computer is generally about 6-7 years old.

Dell has a discount store here with new computers for $300.
The local community college was selling off its old Dells (maybe without 
monitor, not sure) for $10-60, to students.

It is a student town, with some rich students.  The 400MHz was next to a 
dumpster with part of the cover missing (and no cards or RAM).  The 700 
was in a dumpster.  The 600 was dead but only need 6 new capacitors.  The 
500 was in perfect condition from a friend who bought a new Mac.  (It 
looks like a fishtank when not in use).

I let people know I was using SCSI and got three cards, a computer with 
scsi card and drive, and scsi pcmcia.  And a few scanners and zip drives. 
The hard drives were in a wet box at the curb.

We feel like we are drowning in perfectly usable computers.

I wish we could redistribute them around the world without paying postage. 
We did send about 10 to Eritrea once (486s for linux wordprocessing).

 > > Cheers,
> Steven