[yarddog]

Several years ago I attended a computer club’s yard sale. It was surprisingly large with a lot of goods. I did find some old ram modules for 50 cents each. I actually needed them.

I noticed a brand new Realistic 200 baud modem. It was still in a sealed box and had an original price of $400. The guy in charge told a guy to just mark it 50 cents and if they thought that was too much, just give it to them.

I am not computer savvy but I bet some people would have had a good time there.

[Dr. Sivana]

I noticed a brand new Realistic 200 baud modem.

200 baud? Are you sure you don't mean 300 baud or 1200 baud? Even 150 baud was a standard for acoustic modems, but 200 just doesn't fit.

[djf]

I picked up a Del GX420 Optiplex at a yard sale recently.

I had 2 Gb of memory to plunk into it, along with a 250 Gb SATA drive.

Total cost? 20 bucks.

Not bad for a 2.8 Gh Pentium 4.

But it ain’t got a floppy!