If you're willing to wait a few months, BYU has a surplus sale 2 or 3 times a year. Actually, the prices are right around what they should be for what you get. It is very much a ``buyer beware'' circumstance, since they will not accept returns.
These surplus sales are good sources for esoteric hardware. Most of the good mainstream stuff is snatched up by those with BYU administrator ID cards, who get to enter an hour before the general public. Some 15" monitors are pretty good deals (I got a Sony and an NEC Trinitron for $10 each); I wouldn't buy one of the 21" monitors though, given the general condition of the equipment there (you may get lucky, bit it's a risk). I personally got a PCI Advansys SCSI adapter card for $5. The laptops are completely worthless. The parts inside the computers are sometimes worth more than the computers themselves. The older Mac's would make good GNU/Linux firewalls/routers, since their architecture alone makes them resistent to buffer overflow attacks (security by obscurity; nobody writes shellcode for the PPC :-). It's crowded, test stations are crappy, and it's generally not a fun experience in terms of customer friendliness. But like I said, you get what you pay for there. Mike On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 01:49:24PM -0600, Ross Werner wrote: > While we're on this much un-related commercial topic, ... > > I've been looking for various "el-cheapo" computers. MAS computers is > advertising 200MHZ Pentium systems for $25 apiece on their web > site--that's a good example of what I'm looking for. (Unfortunately, I > don't have a car, and when I did manage to get down to MAS computers they > had two clueless guys who had no idea what computers these were that were > listed, even though I'd called the day before to confirm that they were > actually there.) > > Does anybody know where you can get old, cheap computers like this? > > ~ Ross > > > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Daniel Crookston wrote: > > > I have a computer I'm selling, and I'm not sure whether protocol here > > forbids advertising it or not. I guess it's a bit late now, seeing as how > > the question itself could be a bit of an advertisement. If you're really > > mad about this, then buy the computer, and I'll use part of the money you > > paid to buy you donuts. > > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- .__________________________________________________________________. Michael A. Halcrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Security Engineer, IBM Linux Technology Center GnuPG Fingerprint: 05B5 08A8 713A 64C1 D35D 2371 2D3C FDDA 3EB6 601D If you are too busy to read, then you are too busy.
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