Bill's P200 (was: [Gllug] ADSL recommendations )

[William Palfreman]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Wulf Forrester-Barker wrote:

> Bill <william at palfreman.com> wrote:
> 
> > I bought a P200 with 64Mb RAM, a 2Gb disk, cdrom, PCI slots and _2
> > built-in USB ports_ for £80 recently.
> 
> Out of interest, WHERE? My brother (a postgrad student in Bangor,
> Wales) is currently getting in Linux and has installed Debian (console
> mode only) onto the old 486SX33 that was my first computer... but at
> that price he could afford to setup a home network! Come to think of
> it, at that price, I could afford to set up a home network...

A guy at Wood Green Computer Fair - has the stall besides the side door at
the back left of the hall - was selling a whole set of AST Bravos.  I
ended up buying two at that price.  Wood Green computer fair is on
Saturdays at St Michael's Church hall, on that main road that might be
called Bounds Green Road, which is up the hill from Wood Green tube and
arches off to the left.  Its usually quite a good market.

More generally, the canonical way to buy old computers is to lurk at as
many computer fairs as possible, and make sure to talk to all the
traders.  You are bound to meet someone with a lead on some gear, then 
visit their shops or if necessary their homes and see what they can
come up with.  Back street computer shops are quit good for this
too.  18 months ago I had a good supplier of P75/100s on that basis for
about £75 - good value at the time. 
 
> ps. I was also interested by your factlet on CeeFax - is there
> anywhere I can find out more about that.

Er.  It was a link I followed that someone on this mailinglist forwarded,
about Linux at the BBC.  I don't remember exactly who forwarded it, but I
suspect it was someone like John Hearns or Gordon Joly.  One of the usual
suspects.

Regards,
Bill.


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