Anyone have a few old hard drives

[markw at mohawksoft.com (markw at mohawksoft.com)]

I may have a few hard drives around the 1G-15G range, let me dig them out
and send me an address to mail them.

As for computer parts!! What do you need? I have routers, NIC cards, SCSI
cards, and tons of other stuff that I think is too valuable to throw away,
but not valuable enough to actually use. I have a couple monitors as well.

I bet I even have an old hercules compatible IBMPC bus video card and
amber monochrome monitor hanging around! (Should anyone be INSANE and
nostalgic!)

As for the converters, I have one that I really like and I used it last
winter when we had a power failure. I bought it a few years ago and they
are dirt cheap these days. For about $300 you can get a monster one one at
BJs, but they have smaller ones as well. I have looked around and found
that places like BJs sell them MUCH cheaper than places like YDI or
electronics outlets.


Message: 6
Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 10:21:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David Kramer" <david at thekramers.net>
Subject: Anyone have a few old hard drives?
To: discuss at blu.org
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I'm going to be selling at the MIT Flea this month
(http://web.mit.edu/w1mx/www/swapfest.shtml).

I have two or three old, slow computers that are almost complete, but need
hard
drives.
I would like to put hard drives in them and do a minimal Linux install,
just to show
they work.  I'm only gonna charge a few bucks for these computers (it's
more about
cleaning my basement than striking it rich), so I can't afford to pay for
them, but if
anyone has a hard drive or two that's at least a gig, I would love to take
them off
your
hands.

Aside 1: If you have other computer crap you just want to go away, let's
talk.

Aside 2: I'm thinking of buying one of those emergency car battery/AC
inverter things,
in part to have it, and in part to demonstrate these computers with.  Any
recommendations?  Is that something that's rentable?