Re: does anyone know where to buy/look for cheap DecStations?

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From: Thor Lancelot Simon
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 00:00

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In article <38443934.5CD42A93@adenzel.demon.nl>,
Alex van Denzel  <alx@adenzel.demon.nl> wrote:
>Mike Levin wrote:
>
>>  I am looking for a place to buy a DecStation 5000 or even DecStation
>> 3100. They must be pretty cheap by now...
>
>The company I work for sold quite a few back to Compaq. They did get a
>fair price for them, or a bit off the price for new AlphaServers. I
>guess Compaq will refurbish them and re-sell them.

I seriously doubt it.  There's basically nobody to sell them _to_, as
is usually the case with last-generation workstation hardware -- and
these, of course, are more like 3 generations behind.

They'll probably punch holes in the PCBs and send it all off to
component recyclers.

-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com
	"And where do all these highways go, now that we are free?"

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From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon)
Subject: Re: does anyone know where to buy/look for cheap DecStations?
Date: 1999/12/01
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