On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 15:12:28 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: >I'm going to share with all what I wrote to Gerald privately. > >If you need hardware, and if you know what you are doing, going the >eBay >route [sometimes for software, too] can be far better than paying >more >than you want to for more than you need/can use. > >There is currently a lot of 3 HDDs, "old" ones between 500-800Mbytes >IDE, that doesn't even have a bid placed on them -- opening bid is >$25 >and shipping is under $10 > >I'm certain there are similar bargains all over the place if you just >look. > >I recently picked up what I turned into a working legal copy of >TurboCAD >for $10 including postage and handling. I also picked up at 10/100 >4-port hub along with 2 PCI FastEthernet NICs, and two 20' CAT5 RJ45 >cables to set up networking for under $35 [price hubs some time and >see >how well I did] but no driver diskette was included ... no biggie >since >it was Netgear and they have the most recent drivers and diagnostics, >plus pdf manuals and how-to available for download. > >If all you know is PnP, then eBay might not be a good idea. But if >you're a decent Arachne user you shouldn't have many problems as >long as >you check stuff out [like mfr support available on-line] before you >start to bid. > >Even if you aren't running 'legacy' stuff, the dozerware users dump >perfectly good things for next to nothing because they don't know >what >else to do with it. <G> I say "If I can legally 'steal' goodies I >need, >it would be criminal NOT to." > >l.d. >-- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ > >
Yes, and my tuppence worth is check out the magazine freebie discs for winblows stuff. Currently looking at Dreamweaver FULL version, no nags or limitations, but it's the evrsion 1.2, about three back or so. It worked then and was state of the art, so it'll work now! quote: Full program has no restrictions or time limitations. Excludes original packaging and manuals Requires W95/98 or above or MacOS 7.5.5 or above. Register free on website from disc. endquote: I could live without the packaging and the manuals. Trialed it, did'nt like it too much, it was fiddly. I would have been displeased if I had paid the �295 it was supposed to have cost as a new product, but at �2.99 for the magazine, it was worth a try. ($350 and $3.50 or thereabouts respectively) I've got good bits and pieces this way, usually find the two and three back versions work ok and don't have the bloat the newer versions have, well they'v got to do this to sell the new versions don't they? Like the washing machine with 64 programs on it when most women use but three or four! Regards mel
