James-

Did any of the systems you bought have any licenses with them?  Did you
have to do any paperwork?  Was the paperwork in order?

John Lee
Vaske Computer Solutions



At 06:22 PM 9/9/04 -0400, James Hofmeister wrote:
>Hello All,
>
>>>What if the backplane or processor board is fried?   Now
>>>what have you got?  We bought a system on eBay and it wasn't a good value.
>
>I have had good luck with the hobbyist machines I have bought off of eBay..
>One of my e-class boxes came out of a coal mine and runs great for the total
>cost of 65$ including shipping (that is it runs great when it is not too
>warm in my office to power them up:), but as you pointed out YMWV (Your
>Mileage Will Very).  I have bought 5 computers so far off of eBay and only
>had to return one for DOA replacement (a positive experience in the end).
>eBay been a great resource for cheep Linux hardware as well as cheep Unix
>hardware.  I also think in the future it may be a good source for some of
>those rare parts our 3000 homesteaders are going to need to keep the boat a
>float, keeping in mind that you are actually paying pennies on the dollar
>for this hardware and sometimes you get what you pay for.
>
>Regards,
>  James Hofmeister
>
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