Additionally, if you live in an area with an active freecycle community, quality machines can be yours for free. Granted I am in a major city, but I find even p4 units given away. the goal is keeping items out of the landfill, so those using the service would rather pass them on than throw them away.
On Mon, 9 Nov 2015, patrick wrote: > old machines are cheap: > I find them all the time at garage sales. > I pay an average of $5 for a tower of any age. > Sometimes people just give them to me to get rid of them. > More often, they just throw them away. > Newegg sells reconditioned machines, usually with Windows 7 > for 75 - 200$ and there are lots of other companies doing the same. > > > On 11/09/2015 07:07 AM, Don Flowers wrote: >> Yeah, I should have mentioned that my PC has an onboard Intel 82567LM-3 >> for which there seems to be no DOS option for connectivity and the sound >> is HD and unrecognisableed by either MPXPlay or Mplayer, I have at least >> one game that will throw sound out the onboard speaker (Empong). >> >> As for buying a retro machine, have you checked the prices lately? In the >> past year alone a PII or PIII with one ISA slot has doubled in price to an >> average of $300-400. I do have a couple of Compaq Armada laptops that have >> awsome sound and also connect via PCMCIA netcard. I am trying to get a >> working Desktop PC that is capable of running FreeDOS and still will run >> Linux and/or Windows. It's an elusive beast. :^) >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Presto, an open source distributed SQL query engine for big data, >> initially >> developed by Facebook, enables you to easily query your data on Hadoop in >> a >> more interactive manner. Teradata is also now providing full enterprise >> support for Presto. Download a free open source copy now. >> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=250295911&iu=/4140 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
