[ale] where to find older boxes

[Jeff Hubbs]

I'm only recycling this Slashdot story due to the serendipity effect, 
but apparently you can get new OS-less PCs through Wal-Mart; see 
http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/04/29/0218241.shtml?tid=7.  The poop: 
     offerings start at $413 shipped for a 128MB 1GHz Duron or Celeron; 
everything works except the Lucent WinModem (although it might if you 
really work at it).

In other news, I'm using an AMD K6-2+/500 (CPU off eBay but Socket-7 
mobo and case from the old MicroSeconds for $10) to prototype a 
thin-client/term-server rig.  This box has Gentoo partially set up, but 
I wanted to see LTSP for myself in order to figure out how it worked, so 
I last night I put Mandrake 8.1 on an Intergraph all-SCSI dual P/133 
with 96MB.  A friend inherited it from a former employer and he gave it 
to me.  It came with a 1GB drive and I added a fast-wide 4.2GB drive, 
and I have a ~96MB swap partition on each one.  I wish I had a 20MB/s 
PCI SCSI controller for the 4.2GB drive but I'm not really sure that it 
would help.

- Jeff



Charles Shapiro wrote:

> Alas, Champion has gone the way of all flesh. It was located just off
> Old Roswell Road near the prison, a little North and East of 400 and
> Mansell Road.  This used to be the primo place for
> used/obscure/outdated/broken computer equipment in the Atlanta metro
> area, with both fabulous bargains and horrific scams all under one roof.
> I remember running groups out there from work during lunch hours just to
> look around & buy partz. It was a warehouse full of every computer gizmo
> you can imagine, in a wide variety of conditions, ages, and prices, with
> a line of cash registers on the front where you could bargain over your
> pickings. I understand that the guy who ran it tried again further out
> but alas it was never like the old Champion.
> 
> BTW don't forget there's a CheapAtlantaHardware page on the TWiki
> at http://tomshiro.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/ALE/CheapAtlantaHardware .
> 
> -- CHS
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 22:08, Mike Panetta wrote:
> 
>>I am not sure if they still exist (if they do please tell me), but I
>>remember that Champion Computers had older stuff like this for sale, and
>>the prices were not that bad.  Might want to try there if you can find
>>them.  If you do find them, or if someone else on the list knows where
>>they are be sure to tell me too!  :)
>>
>>Mike
>>
>>On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 21:08, Tyler Kiley wrote:
>>
>>>I'm looking for a P2 300 (or thereabouts) to serve as a fileserver in my home 
>>>office.  Does anybody know of a good place to get old machines cheaply in the 
>>>atlanta area?  I'd rather not go ebay, as I've found ebay'd items aren't 
>>>always in 100% working condition, especially older stuff....
>>>
>>>Tyler
>>>
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