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Gidday. A year later ...

A veritable Computer-MONSTER is still for sale!!

has 8 scsi HDDs 4gig? 8gig?
cd
tape backup
serial number 10-896da

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks...tml/wwhelp.htm

http://groups.google.com/group/nz.co...402-600&rnum=2

(DO NOT REPLY TO MY EMAIL, instead ring aaron on 4865066 )

aaron, I dont want to buy your computer, but your phone number is not a
NZ number, but a local number. I guess you live in Auckland, so I take
it the rest of the country dont care.

cyril wrote:
> aaron, I dont want to buy your computer, but your phone number is not a
> NZ number, but a local number. I guess you live in Auckland, so I take
> it the rest of the country dont care.

Its not an Auckland number. Its worse than that, Cy.

He's in the <gasp>.... NORTH SHORE!!!!

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:26:54 -0800, JohnO wrote:

>
> cyril wrote:
>> aaron, I dont want to buy your computer, but your phone number is not a
>> NZ number, but a local number. I guess you live in Auckland, so I take
>> it the rest of the country dont care.
>
> Its not an Auckland number. Its worse than that, Cy.
>
> He's in the <gasp>.... NORTH SHORE!!!!

In any case it's not a NZ telephone Number - it's north of the Bombay
Hills. ;o)

He said that he wanted $1000 for it a year ago.

how many CPUs? How much RAM? What's the clock speed? What sort of graphics
card(s)? What software comes with it? And why so many very small HDDs?

And what would he hope to get for it in the first quarter of AD2006?


A Nice Cup of Tea

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A: because it messes up threading
Q: why should I not reply by top-posting?
A: No.
Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?

A Nice Cup of Tea wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:26:54 -0800, JohnO wrote:
>
> >
> > cyril wrote:
> >> aaron, I dont want to buy your computer, but your phone number is not a
> >> NZ number, but a local number. I guess you live in Auckland, so I take
> >> it the rest of the country dont care.
> >
> > Its not an Auckland number. Its worse than that, Cy.
> >
> > He's in the <gasp>.... NORTH SHORE!!!!
>
> In any case it's not a NZ telephone Number - it's north of the Bombay
> Hills. ;o)

Heh!

Q: Why did they build the Sky Tower?
A: Aucklanders wanted do see if there was intelligent life south of the
Bombay Hills!

>
> He said that he wanted $1000 for it a year ago.
>
> how many CPUs? How much RAM? > What's the clock speed? What sort of graphics
> card(s)? What software comes with it? And why so many very small HDDs?
>
> And what would he hope to get for it in the first quarter of AD2006?

<Chuckle>

>
>
> A Nice Cup of Tea
>
> --
> A: because it messes up threading
> Q: why should I not reply by top-posting?
> A: No.
> Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:14:04 -0800, JohnO wrote:

> Q: Why did they build the Sky Tower?
> A: Aucklanders wanted do see if there was intelligent life south of the
> Bombay Hills!

LOL! Nice!

Actually, the view from the Sky Tower is quite impressive. )


A Nice Cup of Tea

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Q: why should I not reply by top-posting?
A: No.
Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?

["Followup-To:" header set to nz.wanted.]
On 2006-02-24, A Nice Cup of Tea <> wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:26:54 -0800, JohnO wrote:
>
>>
>> cyril wrote:
>>> aaron, I dont want to buy your computer, but your phone number is not a
>>> NZ number, but a local number. I guess you live in Auckland, so I take
>>> it the rest of the country dont care.
>>
>> Its not an Auckland number. Its worse than that, Cy.
>>
>> He's in the <gasp>.... NORTH SHORE!!!!
>
> In any case it's not a NZ telephone Number - it's north of the Bombay
> Hills. ;o)
>
> He said that he wanted $1000 for it a year ago.
>
> how many CPUs? How much RAM? What's the clock speed? What sort of graphics
> card(s)? What software comes with it? And why so many very small HDDs?

Disks are probably some sort of RAID

> And what would he hope to get for it in the first quarter of AD2006?

He probably wants someone to take it off him.

Bye.
Jasen