Dear All,
Thanks to lots and lots of people for useful replies to my question
about the secondhand value of an Alpha 2100. A few pleaded with me not
to throw it away and offered to take it off my hands, so the good news
is it looks very unlikely I will suffer the pain of throwing it into a
skip. A couple of these offers were from overseas which was most
surprising as I assumed the transport costs would be much greater than
the value of the machine.
The prospect of getting hard cash for the machine is less
definite. Suggestions included:
(1)Joe Fletcher: Put it on Ebay. You'll probably get a good chunk of
money for it.
(2)Stuart Hartley: You could try Compelsolve - or maybe they are now
called Hamilton Rentals (but I think that that is just the rental arm
of the company). They are based in Birmingham, but i cannot locate any
contact info for them at present I'm afraid.
We have sold several of our old machines to them recently.
(3) David Hammet: Here's the cost of a 2nd user system from a Canadian Site :
AS 2100 4/275 256MB, 4.3GB disk, graphics, ethernet, CD ROM US$2,800
(4)Wolfgang Rupp: If keeping it is not practical, you should be able
to sell it, albeit not for much. If that does not work out, a post to
one of the Linux or *BSD development groups should do it. The box will
move away so fast your windows shatter in the sonic boom :-)
(5) Bryan Mills: Computing / Computer Weekly magazines usually have a
few adds from brokers in the back of them
(6) Richard Jackson: The 2100 memory modules are valuable. May 1999 a
company offered to give me a free Alphaserver 1200 for our 2100 (2GB
of the precious memory).
(7) John R. James Jr: I would contact your old Compaq sales person and
see if they would work a trade with you for maybe some additional
storage for you new solution.
(8) Rick Burgess of configsys.com: Our company is in the business of
buying used equipment and refurbishing it. Our Alpha buyer has
informed me that There may be some value to your system but most would
go into the skip. If you have single 512MB RAM (B2022) he would pay
$400 USd each and depending on which disk drives you have, there may
some value there.
I felt a little guilty posting the message because it seemed on the
borderline of what is allowed on this list. But the replies were very
useful which suggests this was the right group to ask.
Regards,
Bob
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Received on Tue Jun 12 2001 - 13:50:10 NZST