Hardware Thread, Acorn RiscPCs to a good home in Technical; Hello folks!
I'm about to dispose of approximately 32 Acorn computers that have been clogging up a cupboard of mine ...
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30th July 2007, 12:17 PM #1 Acorn RiscPCs to a good home
Hello folks!
I'm about to dispose of approximately 32 Acorn computers that have been clogging up a cupboard of mine for years.
Most are Risc PC 600/700s with a few A5000s and a few A3020/A3010s. As far as I know they're all working, but I might have to smash the HDs with a lump hammer to remove our software from them
I'd like them to go to a good home but I've had enough of them so if someone wants them - come and get 'em or they'll get recycled!
The clock is ticking....
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30th July 2007, 06:56 PM #2 Re: Acorn RiscPCs to a good home
Have you thought about Ebay? Obviously its a hassle but looking at some completed listings the RISC PC's seem to attract about £50 each
For a quick sale you could try like £500 for the lot maybe?
If not, hope someone takes them off you, would be a shame for them to go to waste. If I was closer, I would be tempted, although its probably a good job Im not, as I need to stop collecting "junk"
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30th July 2007, 08:43 PM #3 Re: Acorn RiscPCs to a good home
Not sure I can be fussed with Ebay. I really want them taken away sharpish.
We've got a company that'll take them for nothing to recycle.
I kept them for years because I really like the machines - I remember drooling over the first machine we had delivered in July 1994 with a massive 17" Philips monitor. It's like parting with a piece of history and I still like RiscOS, but times change and they've been in the cupboard for 6 years. An Arm 710 doesn't really cut it and the crabby refresh rates give me a headache.
I shouldn't hoard this stuff.
Oh! And all the RiscPcs have co-processor cards in them (one is *nackered). The A3020 has a hard drive, there's a Cumana SCSI interface and a 386SX PC Podule for an A5000 (wow).
Surely that would tip the balance in favour of a good new home?
On the negative side, some of the front covers flap like a outhouse door in the wind
, there're no mice and only one keyboard (attached by a cunning PS/2 converter box inside an A4000 case), and they've got the name of the school emblazoned all over them and a fetching broad yellow stripe.
I'm really selling this aren't I?
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13th August 2007, 09:09 AM #4 Re: Acorn RiscPCs to a good home
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