>>>>> "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