I know what you mean. I just built a 1Ghz Duron last
month and have less than $300 in it. The only existing
parts that i already had were my cdrw, hard drive, and
video card. I got all the stuff through
pricewatch.com. I start salivating when I see stuff
like 512mb of pc133 for $40...

It's too bad you can't recoup some of the money on
computers of yesteryear... I have a Compaq p133 that
was a graduation gift. It cost my father $2500, not
including the ram upgrade... I'd be lucky to be able
to give it away now...

--- Steven Hildreth <s_p_hildreth@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I find it continually amazing how people will pay
> for things like this.
> 
> At work we build boxes with specs like this:
> 	FIC AZ11EA (Via 686a chipset based)
> 	AMD 1.4 TBird
> 	256 PC133
> 	20 Gig Maxtor HD
> 	32 Pine Meg TNT2
> 	Asound 8139c NIC
> 	Keytronic 105 Keyboard
> 	Generic Optical Mouse
> 	17" 1280x1024 Monitor
> 
> We put Redhat 7.3 (or Gentoo 1.2 depending on the
> user saviness) and
> open office, and send them out for new sales peoples
> computers.
> 
> Total cost to us approx $515
> 
> We don't do anything special (like direct importing
> or buying in large
> quantities) we just purchase from guys like
> www.googlegear.com and
> www.mwave.com
> 
> Just my pesky logic I suppose getting in the way
> again ;)
> 
> Later..
> Steven
> 
> On Sun, 2002-08-11 at 00:09, Bradley Miller wrote:
> > One only has to open up the newspaper to have a
> good laugh at other
> > technology blunders  . . .  for sale 400 Mhz . . 
> $800.
> > 
> > -- Bradley Miller
> > 
> > 
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