[GRLUG] VC Tech Source

[Mike]

I love VC Tech Source, of course I have this weird thing for older
hardware. Jim is a great guy, bring me along and I probably could get
you a discount, haha.

I saw a few slot motherboards the last time I went. They should still
have some left. It's usually a hit or miss.

Mike

On 5/9/06, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> I remember something about this.  A person could lose a $100
>  motherboard because of a 25-cent capacitor.
>
>  VC Tech Source is starting to get in Pentium 4 machines.
>  But the pricing system ends up making a 1.8 GHz machine
>  with a pentium 4 in it $171 dollars, which is way too much
>  for a junker.   And a pentium 4 is a dog in my opinion.  The
>  high clock rates suggest a crummy instruction set,  and the
>  chips are real power hogs.
>
>  At those prices,  better to buy a new low end Athlon based machine.
>
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>     -Bob
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> On 5/9/06, Raymond McLaughlin <driveray at ameritech.net> wrote:
> > Ron Lauzon wrote:
> > > Bob Kline wrote:
> > >> I made a stop at VC Tech Source today.  The stock seemed to be rather
> > >> depleted,  ...
> >
> > > Keep in mind that they are scrappers.  If companies aren't getting rid
> > > of their hardware, they have little to sell. ...
> >
> > > Well, we ARE in the Dutch area of the state.  8-)
> > >
> >
> > I would suggest that we may also be seeing a "lost generation" in the
> scrap
> > computer cycle. The last slot 1's (late PIIs, early PIIIs) are running
> out, and
> > many of the next gen socket 370/socket 462 era (later PIII's  and
> comparable
> > Athlons) were from the *era of bad capacitors* < http://www.badcaps.net/>.
> >
> > I'm painfully aware of this because I have several good CPUs, with
> approporiate
> > RAM, etc., and no mobo to run them in. I'm tempted to order replacement
> mobos,
> > but I'm affraid anything of that class would be leftovers with caps that
> will
> > fail in 2-3 years. :-(
> >
> > Any way's that's my speculation, based on my (limited) observation.
> >
> > Raymond McLaughlin
> >
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