C'DaleRider
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Went to another "household goods" and gun auction last night. Always like to see what's being sold even if I don't buy anything. Quite a few interesting guns this week.......a nice Benelli shotgun, couple of Brownings cinl. a BAR, an AR-15, an AR-7, and on and on.
On one table were three so-called computer systems. One was so old it had an AT keyboard connector for the MB and lots of ISA slots. But looking forlorne on the table, missing a faceplate from its CD burner and a faceplate/slot cover, was an older Gateway Athlon T-bird Slot A 800mHz system.
It had, upon opening it and poking around inside, the aforementioned 800mHz Athlon Slot A cpu, a 15GB WD HD, a 20GB Seagate HD, 256MB PC133 RAM (two strips of 128), a 64MB PNY GeForce4 MX440 AGP video card, and included a quite recent 15" Princeton flat-screen black CRT monitor.
So I bid on it and set my max bid at $5. Well, I started the bidding out on it at $2.....and it ws back to me at $6 after another idiot bid on it repeatedly.......$1 increments. So, I bid $6.....a whole buck more than I wanted to spend on it. Thankfully, the lady quit bidding.
The amazing thing is, the darned thing boots up fine and works great!!! So, a $6.60 (after buyer's premium of 10% markup) computer that should be worth at least $40-50, maybe more.
Sometimes good thing happen.
On one table were three so-called computer systems. One was so old it had an AT keyboard connector for the MB and lots of ISA slots. But looking forlorne on the table, missing a faceplate from its CD burner and a faceplate/slot cover, was an older Gateway Athlon T-bird Slot A 800mHz system.
It had, upon opening it and poking around inside, the aforementioned 800mHz Athlon Slot A cpu, a 15GB WD HD, a 20GB Seagate HD, 256MB PC133 RAM (two strips of 128), a 64MB PNY GeForce4 MX440 AGP video card, and included a quite recent 15" Princeton flat-screen black CRT monitor.
So I bid on it and set my max bid at $5. Well, I started the bidding out on it at $2.....and it ws back to me at $6 after another idiot bid on it repeatedly.......$1 increments. So, I bid $6.....a whole buck more than I wanted to spend on it. Thankfully, the lady quit bidding.
The amazing thing is, the darned thing boots up fine and works great!!! So, a $6.60 (after buyer's premium of 10% markup) computer that should be worth at least $40-50, maybe more.
Sometimes good thing happen.
