from Sam Ewalt: > For awhile New Deal was trying to peddle their package to school systems to take advantage of the piles of older hardware that schools often have. But even the schools in the low budget farm area I live in are tossing out their 486's. I just got three Dell 486's with monitors, network cards, sound, Altec speakers, 500 meg hard drives-- all for twenty bucks.
> So New Deals advantages on 286's became meaningless. No market there at all. You got a steal! I saw two 486's at a flea market going for $200 and $275, with Win95 running. I don't know how much RAM. Maybe some buyer might not realize how outdated those computers are? I even saw a new (I guess that means unused, still in the original box) Toshiba 2400 bps modem offered for $18. Any suckers out there? These modems would be not merely too slow but would be completely unusable for the Internet if the ISP rejects any connection < 14.4K.
