Bernie, here in the major cities of the U.S. and in smaller, but
centrally-located towns, we have weekend events known as "shows". These are
not expositions, but large flea markets where dealers set up tables to sell
their new stuff as discounted prices, and where many people come and sell
old used gear. Some of these dealers take your owld stuff as trade or buy
it outright. At some of these computer shows, one can often find 16-bit ISA
cards of all types, including network cards, SCSI cards, and multiple I/O
IDE cards very cheap, even ones that sold for hundreds of dollars when they
were new cutting-edge technology.
In cities like Atlanta, there are also people who deal in old stuff out of
their homes, and several second-hand computer stores and "salvatge" stores
that sell this kind of stuff. As you mentioned, the price you might pay for
certain items might depend partly on the seller's mood that day and even on
his lack of knowledge about a particular item.
Even new, where still available, multi I/O IDE interface cards are quite
cheap now in most computer stores. Everything is going PCI now. If you
have a motherboard with VL-Bus connections, those cards are really cheap now
when you can find them.
The problem you might find with some of these used devices is that they may
come to you with no written documentation or diagrams of the jumper and dip
switch block settings, and some of them have many different jumpers and
switches to set for different parameters. Note Yolanda's problem with her
No Modem problem.
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