The price is actually $175 for a CD-Rom drive, bringing the total for PC with CD-Rom (24x) to $675. The screens are 17"
The price for the floppy drive is for one of those L120 drives that reads/writes floppies as well as 120Mb disks the size of a floppy. I don't see much point. You can hook up an IDE CD-Rom drive to install an OS - you just can't screw the drive into the case. I've just spoken to a techie who said RedHat detects all the hardware okay. He tried it. They have a built-in eth0 port, so networking is okay. I'd buy several myself if I didn't have a wedding to save up for (13 April 2002 - happy happy joy joy) Yuri > -----Original Message----- > > Hi all. This call-centre is shutting down and there's some stuff being > flogged off. > Looks like staff only at this stage so y'all have to go thru me if you > want to buy stuff. > > Yuri > > <Quote> > -----Original Message----- > From: XXXX > Sent: Wednesday, 28 November 2001 12:18 > To: XXXX > Subject: PC's for sale > > We're going to sell off as many of the Compaq iPaq's as we can - they're > mostly 500MHz machines, but there are a few 600's around, so they'll go up > for $500 and $600 respectively. > > The catch: They don't come with a floppy or CD drive, and they don't have > expansion slots for the standard offerings, which means you're limited to > the Compaq devices, which will be about $380 for a CD drive, and about > $450 for a floppy drive. If 10 or more people are interested then Compaq > will significantly discount this price. For home use you'd also need an > external modem, either USB or serial, but they're pretty cheap. > > However, all up that would mean you get a 500MHz machine with 64Mb RAM and > 8Gb hard drive for around $1000 to $1200, which is very reasonable. > > Email me if you're interested, and we'll see what sort of deal can be done > with drives. > > Cheers, XXXX. > </Quote> > > > > This email together with any attachments may contain privileged and confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender and delete the message. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and will not necessarily reflect the views of NGC.
