> >From Mark Warner
>>You can buy pallets of old P-IIIs for next to nothing on eBay.
>
> Wow. This was a great tip. The most questionable part of that
> statement, actually, is the P-III part. I found P-IVs much easier,
> and they were still amazingly cheap. Apparently the search term to
> use is "LOT" as in "LOT OF 10 pentium 4 2.8 GHZ P4, 512 DDR, CDROM"
> (starting bid $870, 0 bids so far, ends tomorrow evening). Or "Lot of
> 34 Dell Optiplex GX260 PC Computer P4 40GB" (Buy it now
> $1,359.96.. that's $40 each!! shipping will probably make it a bit more,
> but still). Mostly I'm averse to used hardware because we want the
> machines to be reliable, nearly identical, and require little labor to
> set up. Buying lots of nearly identical hardware like this should
> address those concerns. And the prices are amazing.
>
One more place to look for these is IU Salvage. From time to time
(every couple months) they have an auction, which typically includes
palettes of desktops and monitors. Their prices for individual
computers aren't very good, but it might be a different story for a
lot of 10. You could save on shipping :-)
-Thomas
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