goldenfleece Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 Myfriend just emailed me this, apparently there is a rather tatty looking 386 PC for sale at a Cancer Research charity shop near University of Kent....quite funny and I wonder if someone is having a joke or are just genuinely not in the know that this machine is not exactly worth the price wanted!!! It was a 386 machine with clock speed of 16 mhz and 4 MB RAM, old style 5.25" floppy disk drive and nasty scraping sticking mouse the size of a housebrick. With dot matrix printer the size of a suitcase jammed with ripped sprocketed computer paper, plus boxload of bent (as in creased) 5.25" floppy disks. Loaded with MS-DOS version 3.3, and what looked like MS-DOS first version of WORD or its equivalent. Monitor was some pre-war device which just about ran to 16 colours in clunky VGA resolution, with a nasty flicker down one side of the screen. Included was "MS-DOS Users guide " for version 2 (not 3.3), and "How to look after your home computer" which was dated 1988. What was more amusing was the sign on top of it which read as follows: "IDEAL FOR STUDENTS.....NO ONE CAN AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT A COMPUTER THESE DAYS....NO MORE ESSAY BLUES WRITING YOU CAN TYPE IT ALL IN....PRINT IT ALL OUT.....LOADS OF FLOPPY DISKS INCLUDED AND SOME BOOKS AND TABLE TOP POINTER:hihi: ....COMPUTER TYPEWRITER PROGRAM INCLUDED....CONNECT TO THE WWW. WORLD WEB SERVICE BUT TELEPHONE POINT REQUIRED AND SOME WIRES......FREE DELIVERY IN CT5 AREA.....£70" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
never wrong Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 Myfriend just emailed me this, apparently there is a rather tatty looking 386 PC for sale at a Cancer Research charity shop near University of Kent....quite funny and I wonder if someone is having a joke or are just genuinely not in the know that this machine is not exactly worth the price wanted!!! It was a 386 machine with clock speed of 16 mhz and 4 MB RAM, old style 5.25" floppy disk drive and nasty scraping sticking mouse the size of a housebrick. With dot matrix printer the size of a suitcase jammed with ripped sprocketed computer paper, plus boxload of bent (as in creased) 5.25" floppy disks. Loaded with MS-DOS version 3.3, and what looked like MS-DOS first version of WORD or its equivalent. Monitor was some pre-war device which just about ran to 16 colours in clunky VGA resolution, with a nasty flicker down one side of the screen. Included was "MS-DOS Users guide " for version 2 (not 3.3), and "How to look after your home computer" which was dated 1988. What was more amusing was the sign on top of it which read as follows: "IDEAL FOR STUDENTS.....NO ONE CAN AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT A COMPUTER THESE DAYS....NO MORE ESSAY BLUES WRITING YOU CAN TYPE IT ALL IN....PRINT IT ALL OUT.....LOADS OF FLOPPY DISKS INCLUDED AND SOME BOOKS AND TABLE TOP POINTER:hihi: ....COMPUTER TYPEWRITER PROGRAM INCLUDED....CONNECT TO THE WWW. WORLD WEB SERVICE BUT TELEPHONE POINT REQUIRED AND SOME WIRES......FREE DELIVERY IN CT5 AREA.....£70" you do get free delivery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoop Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 I live at Woodseats, so I get to see alot of charity shop howlers. It seems that the ladies who run the shops have no idea of the value of most items. Anyone seen the wedding dresses in the St Lukes shop? Absolute scruffy tat... marked up at £100! I often go in just for a laugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggletail Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 Sure it was a cancer research shop? Sounds more like Oxfam price to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickM Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 You never know a local museum might bite their hands off for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beakerzoid Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 On the flip side. you can sometimes get some right bargains from them due to the lack of knowledge when pricing up. Can sometimes find some great low priced PC games in the 'mixed games' boxes. (plus a lot of retro games - some quite rare). I managed to pick up a copy of Suikoden 2 for the PS1 in a charity shop for £10....it is usually sold for £50 on e-bay due the the scarcity of it. (If anyone sees Suikoden 1, BUY IT....it is rare as hell!) My best purchase was 2 sourcebooks for Warhammer RPG, for the Enemy Within Campaign (Kislev, and Empire in Flames for those in the know.) Impossible to find anywhere, and usually go for at least £80 on e-bay. £4.50 each in mint condition! (The old dear selling me it seemed to feel she was ripping me off at that price!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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