old computers?

i'm not saying i'll just take them or anything, but does anyone have
any old (or new) computers that they don't want?

destron wrote:
> i'm not saying i'll just take them or anything, but does anyone have
> any old (or new) computers that they don't want?

Ask who does not. I have some I can't give away. I have boxes of hardware
that I can not give away. Everything you can still buy and pay for if you
wanted one but I will be throwing away god knows how much as I am not in
resale and have no marketing. If you wanted anything and you were within
driving distance you would be one happy guy if you wanted used computers,
hard drives, nic cards,sound and video cards,UPSs,CRTs.
Example:
I have a P3 450 Win98SE 80G main drive with bays and many external drives,
ATI 9000 AIW, Audigy 5.1 with speakers, max ram DVD/CDRW loaded with SW and
will run forever. Totally worthless and will end up in the junk pile because
it sits there all day and does nothing. Who would buy it or even want it?

JB

maybe i don't understand what you're getting at... that computer is
relatively good. I mean, if you pulled the parts, you could sell them
on ebay or whatever. the 80 gb drive is worth at least 20 bucks. i
regret to say it's better than my current computer. (sad, i know).

Just Bob wrote:
> destron wrote:
>
>> i'm not saying i'll just take them or anything, but does anyone have
>> any old (or new) computers that they don't want?
>
> Ask who does not. I have some I can't give away. I have boxes of hardware
> that I can not give away. Everything you can still buy and pay for if you
> wanted one but I will be throwing away god knows how much as I am not in
> resale and have no marketing. If you wanted anything and you were within
> driving distance you would be one happy guy if you wanted used computers,
> hard drives, nic cards,sound and video cards,UPSs,CRTs.
> Example:
> I have a P3 450 Win98SE 80G main drive with bays and many external drives,
> ATI 9000 AIW, Audigy 5.1 with speakers, max ram DVD/CDRW loaded with SW and
> will run forever. Totally worthless and will end up in the junk pile because
> it sits there all day and does nothing. Who would buy it or even want it?

If you want to get rid of things publicize your location and/or
email address. That P3 is about what I am running now, and it is
quite satisfactory. If you are around the corner I will come and
get it.

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On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 18:54:03 -0500, "Just Bob"
<JustBob@xemaps.com> wrote:

>
>
>destron wrote:
>> i'm not saying i'll just take them or anything, but does anyone have
>> any old (or new) computers that they don't want?
>
> Ask who does not. I have some I can't give away. I have boxes of hardware
>that I can not give away. Everything you can still buy and pay for if you
>wanted one but I will be throwing away god knows how much as I am not in
>resale and have no marketing. If you wanted anything and you were within
>driving distance you would be one happy guy if you wanted used computers,
>hard drives, nic cards,sound and video cards,UPSs,CRTs.
> Example:
> I have a P3 450 Win98SE 80G main drive with bays and many external drives,
>ATI 9000 AIW, Audigy 5.1 with speakers, max ram DVD/CDRW loaded with SW and
>will run forever. Totally worthless and will end up in the junk pile because
>it sits there all day and does nothing. Who would buy it or even want it?


You might be surprised, lots of people particularly poor
students- you might put up a note on a college bulletin
board.

Funny thing is, that system is superior to what many people
are buying new from Dell today. Typical highest volume Dell
systems have intel integrated video and sound which are
worse than 9000AIW and Audigy 5.1 and no tuner. Certainly
the P3/450 and Win98se are the weaker links but are more
than sufficient for typical office, email, websurfing.

destron wrote:
> maybe i don't understand what you're getting at... that computer is
> relatively good. I mean, if you pulled the parts, you could sell them
> on ebay or whatever. the 80 gb drive is worth at least 20 bucks. i
> regret to say it's better than my current computer. (sad, i know).

I am saying I have several computers that I will be discarding. I have
boxes of hardware I will be discarding. I have never sold anything on Ebay.
I have a house full of things I could probably sell on Ebay but I have not
done so. Not worth the time and trouble to me I guess. I would rather find
someone that could use many of the things I discard but living in hicks
ville this is not that easy. Example: If you aren't home during the day when
UPS arrives because you work all day and you want your package you have to
take time off from work or drive many miles to pick it up some other time
when you have to take off from work.

well, if you want to know why i'm asking, i'm trying to build a render
farm, and i need a bunch of computers, new or used. if you are just
going to get rid of the stuff, (this may sound naive) you could send
some of the stuff to me, and i could pay the shipping/handling fees.
may i ask where you get all this stuff?

kony wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 18:54:03 -0500, "Just Bob"
> <JustBob@xemaps.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> destron wrote:
>>> i'm not saying i'll just take them or anything, but does anyone have
>>> any old (or new) computers that they don't want?
>>
>> Ask who does not. I have some I can't give away. I have boxes of
>> hardware that I can not give away. Everything you can still buy and
>> pay for if you wanted one but I will be throwing away god knows how
>> much as I am not in resale and have no marketing. If you wanted
>> anything and you were within driving distance you would be one happy
>> guy if you wanted used computers, hard drives, nic cards,sound and
>> video cards,UPSs,CRTs.
>> Example:
>> I have a P3 450 Win98SE 80G main drive with bays and many external
>> drives, ATI 9000 AIW, Audigy 5.1 with speakers, max ram DVD/CDRW
>> loaded with SW and will run forever. Totally worthless and will end
>> up in the junk pile because it sits there all day and does nothing.
>> Who would buy it or even want it?
>
>
> You might be surprised, lots of people particularly poor
> students- you might put up a note on a college bulletin
> board.
>
> Funny thing is, that system is superior to what many people
> are buying new from Dell today. Typical highest volume Dell
> systems have intel integrated video and sound which are
> worse than 9000AIW and Audigy 5.1 and no tuner. Certainly
> the P3/450 and Win98se are the weaker links but are more
> than sufficient for typical office, email, websurfing.

Oh, I know that all to well. Most should but many do not. They would rather
buy the special at wallyworld or bestbuy. I have been upgrading my systems
piece by piece for a while. This particular one just got left behind for
some unknown reason. Like a neglected child it is now worthless to most
everyone.

i'm not sure i can afford it yet, but are you willing to send your old
stuff to me then?

destron wrote:
> well, if you want to know why i'm asking, i'm trying to build a render
> farm, and i need a bunch of computers, new or used. if you are just
> going to get rid of the stuff, (this may sound naive) you could send
> some of the stuff to me, and i could pay the shipping/handling fees.
> may i ask where you get all this stuff?

First question in my mind is what is a render farm? Much of the stuff I
have is older stuff that I can no longer use. A dozen or so NIC cards for
example. Old hard drives that work that I keep around in drawers that I plug
in to all my active systems. Drives that are ranging from 30 Gig to 60g to
100g and so on up to 300 Gigs. I never use the smaller ones but they still
work fine. Soon I will have all high capacity SATA and the others will be
replaced. I just built a new System that I TOTALLY did not need for the fun
of it.(Spending 2K) Top ATI PCIe VID card and I never played a game in my
life. The penny pinchers that try to save a few bucks on one thing or
another assembling a System would get sick. I don't know personally one
other person that uses a computer for anything other than email, games and
porn. You mentioned sad? I just don't get out enough I guess. Hicskville
and all.

Tell me what you are working with and exactly what you are trying to
achieve and if I can help you out I will do so.

JB