From: Sherwood Botsford (sbotsfordsjsa.ab.ca)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2008 - 11:28:40 CST

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Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 10:17:47PM -0500, Paul D. Ouderkirk wrote:
>
>> Probably your best bet to cover these requirements would be some old
>> school Compaq Proliant
>> with 2 or 4-way Pentium Pro CPUs. You can find them clocked around 200MHz.
>>
>> You can get them on eBay cheaply, but you'll probably get screwed on shipping.
>>
>
> They're above 200 MHz, and yeah, shipping is a pain. Crossing the
> boarder is a huge pain because of the custom's brokerage fees.
>
> Anybody in Ontario or Quebec with anything?
>
> Doug.
>
>

Why not try the recycle centers? In Alberta now, electronics is
diverted for salvage purposes. I bet this is true in Ontario too.

Go the the collection point, and put up a sign that says you are
looking for a 486 whatever, put your phone number on it.

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