Pfeifer, William wrote: > Fidelity Mutual Life is converting from an IBM mainframe to > PCs and expects to complete it within 3-6 months. After that > time, we wish to dispose of all our mainframe equipment as > described below. [...] > Is anybody interested? Naturally, we would like a few bucks > but we would be happy if someone will take it away free but > handle their own shipping at no cost to us.
I've seen this sort of stuff on eBay quite a number of times. Sometimes it sells, and sometimes it doesn't, and I haven't figured out any obvious pattern. I would guess that your tape drives are worth more than the rest put together. Certainly SCSI versions of 3480s go for a good buck, but Bus & Tag I'm not so sure about. A reseller might take it all off your hands for a fixed price, and that's worth something, even if you could in theory get more selling the parts. But the resellers form a strange industry; you'll find if you start Googling on some of your hardware that there are many resellers claiming to have your stuff in stock, but in fact they are mostly just copying each other's listings, typos and all. And eBay has lots of stuff for sale at what seems like outrageous (if you're a buyer) or excellent (if you're a seller) prices, but I very much doubt that most of the stuff actually goes for what's being asked. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
