<div dir="auto">Hey Charles,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I too am interested in this range of computer. I was talking with Paul about it on Saturday. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Can you keep an eye out for more than one?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Benjamin </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon., Jul. 22, 2019, 4:02 p.m. Charles M <<a href="mailto:chaslinux@gmail.com">chaslinux@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="auto">Ron I’m pretty sure we do have a 486 motherboard. I’m not at work now, but I’ll check in the morning. I think we also have a complete Pentium I (remember seeing socket 7), but we would have to wipe the drive before we let that go. We are not seeing as much as we used to in the 386/486 range, even Pentium II and III are less common than they used to be, but we do still get the odd one in.</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I’ll check tomorrow morning for you, I think I have one by my desk along with a slew of parts someone brought in recently.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 11:02 AM Ron Singh <<a href="mailto:ronsingh149@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ronsingh149@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Man, questions like these make me want to cry -- just last year in May, my local IT joint had a massive purge of older parts, ranging from 486 to PIII and the associated ISA-bussed stuff, all e-wasted. Remarkable how many brand-new ATI VLB video cards were tossed, a project that went bad.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I think you would have the best of luck with a visit to a smaller e-waster, where you tell them that you will tear apart some older PCs and take what you want and they get some free labour. I would imagine most e-waster will frown on an outside at their premises from a liability standpoint, but mebbe not. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I think it worth a try.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I am personally looking for an ASUS ISA-486 mobo as it was best-of-breed back in the day as I have a real nice Intel 486dx4-100 CPU in hand along with the RAM/PSU/Video. Shockingly, we found a new DEC Alpha mobo that will run Win NT and likely some Debian cut. That mobo was kept:-)<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_-6302356560970380293m_-3598540297247594515gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks,<br><br>Ron Singh<br><br></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 9:20 PM Colin Mackay <<a href="mailto:zixiekat@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">zixiekat@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Greetings,<div><br></div><div>I'm looking to revive an old 386 I once had. I've found an identical model on ebay and it's on it's way, but it got me wondering if there was anything in the K/W (or even Toronto) area where older computer parts may still be available?</div><div><br></div><div>I've done a number of google searches, but most of the companies out there sell more recent systems (2010+). I'm hoping for late 80's early 90's.</div><div><br></div><div>If anyone knows, please let me know!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks.</div></div>
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