1/17/00 11:56:36 PM
I go to the Kalamazoo show in Michigan. I find that the amount of used stuff varies
everytime I go. I get dissapointed when all they have
is new stuff. Sometimes you get the best of both worlds, However. New old stuff :-)
I bought both my non-Pnp SoundBlaster 16's at the
show....they hadn't ever been used, they were just old stock :-)
Once in a while you'll find a person that thinks his used stuff is made of Gold. One
show I attended a guy was trying to sell a Microchannel
SCSI card for $100......yeah right! I doubt it was even the "good one". Microchannel
stuff can be pricey, but not at a computer show!
I have been seeing A LOT of VLB stuff lately......necer used it myself, However......I
want EISA :-)
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
Brent Reynolds-> 1/17/00 3:30:03 PM ->
>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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