Has anyone had much luck finding decent monitors at the barain barn? I
could use a couple of monitors so that each of my boys could have a
system. It looks like you just show up between 9am and 1pm is it that
easy :)
Stephen
Mark K. Kim wrote:
> Have you checked out UCD Bargain Barn? The stuff they have isn't
> always a bargain but it wouldn't hurt to just take a look:
>
> http://www-matmgr.ucdavis.edu/intro/barnsale.html
>
> I don't see any Mac floppies listed but they do have several Mac systems.
> I don't know your price range but maybe you can salvage a floppy drive out
> of one of 'em.
>
> BTW, you don't have to be affiliated with UCD to purchase items marked for
> "public sale".
>
> Also, you can check out ucd.swap newsgroup, (if you can access it.)
>
> -Mark (feeling very UCD-ish today :)
>
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Jan Wynholds wrote:
>
>
>> Hey all:
>>
>> Just wanted to pass along some info about the little project I have undertaken
>> regarding the macs that are being rather unwielding to my efforts at installing
>> linux.
>>
>> Chris and I were trying to format and read disks. After some digging on the
>> net, I found that those macs use 800k disks. And this is a bad thing b/c pc's
>> cannot read or write these disks (the geometry is so different). So I have no
>> method of transport for these. So I am looking at 1.4 mb drives on ebay for
>> these models. If anyone would sell an external 1.44 mb drive for the mac, you
>> would be my hero.
>>
>> So if anyone has any macintosh junk laying around the home or office that they
>> want to sell/give/throw away, I will scrounge it and give you a reasonable
>> price for it.
>>
>> This has been fun, tho. I haven't done alot of technical crap with macs
>> (mostly just typing papers and that sort of thing). It's fun to go digging
>> through the guts of it.
>>
>> :)
>>
>> J
>>
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