Date   : Wed, 20 Jun 2001 10:52:09 +0100 (BST)
From   : gARetH baBB <hick@...>
Subject: Re: Radio rallies

On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Kris Adcock wrote:

> You don't have to tell me. I'm still annoyed at passing up a BBC B, monitor,
> books, software and two disk drives for fifteen quid at the Elvaston Castle
> rally last Sunday. I have been universally voted "plonker" by the guys I
> work with.

Erm, I wouldn't call you a plonker, I'd call you someone who managed to
not be ripped off - paying as much as 15 quid for something like that
would be madness.

The "charity stall" at the Acorn Show in Wakefield last month were going
to *skip* Archimedes' (piles of 300s, 400s, 3000s etc) because there's
just too much of the stuff to store anywhere. Same with alsorts of Beeb
stuff.

I got an a400 with 4M RAM, ARM3, OAK SCSI +drive, and probably other stuff
for about 2 quid, and I was offered *plenty* more of similar but there's
only so much you could find use for ...

I saw a B+ and CUB monitor the other week at a car boot sale in Leeds, I
suspect it could have been taken off them for a couple of quid as well.

Paul Beverly has just forwarded a message in the Archive mailing list from
someone who is trying to get rid of *20* Masters and *55* a3000/3010/3020
from a school near Leeds.

I would laugh at 15 quid and shake my head and walk away !