>>>>> "CWS" == Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome at real-time.com> writes: >> Well, it's an auction. Generally it runs til noon or so, with >> the computer stuff being towards the end. There's other stuff >> too, like de-commisioned cop cars and confiscated stuff from >> drug busts and the like. Occasionally you'll find better >> computers that have been seized than what our department throws >> out, but it's not common. CWS> occasionally there are some humorous moments; like at the '99 CWS> auction, they sold off a Cyrix 200, with a couple of boxes of CWS> garbage Windows software, plus some surge suppressors, plus a CWS> 'monitor', for $300. CWS> the 'monitor' was a Wyse dumb terminal. :) I was caught in a goof like this once, when I bought a SPARC II at an auction and got an IPC (I think that's the right model, maybe IPX?) instead of a monitor! R