What's missing? - a location, people to use and train, and either a recovery plan or an Angel.
At 11:54 AM -0500 3/11/05, Phil Shapiro wrote:
hi DDN community -
in case it might be of interest, a company in the washington dc-area is selling refurbished pentium II computer systems at a very afforable price. $89 for the complete system, including 17-inch monitor.
see http://www.pcretro.com/
you know their supply of these systems is pretty large when they offer to sell you an extra system at half price.
here are some things to keep in mind -
- since these computers come without an operating system or programs, you might want to install linux and openoffice.org on them.
- to have linux run well on these systems, you probably want to add an extra 128 megs (or more) of memory. fedore core (the free version of linux from redhat) runs best in 256 or more of memory.
- choosing to buy these computers with the modem installed (for an extra $20) makes a lot of sense, unless you know that you'll be using the computers on a network only.
- if you wanted to drive to the washington dc-area to buy a bunch of these (and save shipping costs), the company selling them might well negotiate a lump sum fee for 10 or 20 systems. my prediction is that they paid very little -- or nothing -- to acquire the systems. all the same, they're providing a valuable service by storing them and reselling them to the public.
i've dealt with this company before and have been generally happy with what i bought. i wouldn't buy an imac from them, though, because often older imacs have monitor problems than can be costly/annoying to repair. a second-hand blue-and-white G3 is a safer purchase.
- phil
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