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____/ Terry Porter on Friday 18 Sep 2009 13:03 : \____
> On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:45:44 -0500, philo wrote:
>
>> On Tue I picked up a van full of junker machines for $12.
>>
>> Most of them were non-working AMD-350's or similar
>>
>> I spent two days going through them all and fixing them up... then
>> loading either Damn Small Linux or Puppy Linux.
>>
>> Then I posted on Craig's list:
>>
>>
>> $5 each if they wanted a machine with a net card
>>
>> free, if no net card needed.
>>
>> They are all gone now and I made a profit of $3
>>
>>
>> Oh, one machine I kept for my collection was a nice PS/1
>>
>> other than a dead CMOS battery, worked fine!
>>
>>
>> Anyway, more and more folks are interested in Linux...
>>
>> I had way more requests than I had machines.
>>
>> As a matter of fact I had to pull my listing a few hours after I put it
>> up
>
> Good on ya Philo :)
Saves the environment too. What's the Vista equivalent for old PCs? If
there a Puppy Vista?
The diversity in Linux ensures all PCs have something modern to run.
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