I bought (foolishly) a powerbook 5300cs for 150. It worked...sort of, but honestly, the only other computer i had was an imac, and trying to find stuff (inexpensively) to get them to play nice together was too much. So i decided to sell it. Y'know, after buying the GV card for it and everything. Of course, the day I was going to return it, the AC connector went dead. So i had a dead (sort of) PB 5300, a Palm VII, and a GV modem to sell. My total? 10 bucks. I was *this* close to buying a Quadra 950 (for the sheer hell of it) but, alas...cigarettes called my name.

So, in closing...Electronic Discount Sales=great place to buy a mac and hope for the best. It's located in Arlington, on Collins and Pioneer Parkway.

Does anyone have anything similar to share at all?

Macs Liberated: 9 - 6400/180 (main Mac), 660AV, 636CD, LCIII+, LCII (2), Classic II, Classic and SE.

The 7100s are overpriced at $100.

See if you can get the 6500 for $50 or less. It's a nice machine that has accelerated video, an ATA HD (cheap to upgrade), a relatively fast processor, and two PCI slots.

Buy one get one for 50% off right now at Electronic Discount Sales in Arlington/Irving.

So now you can get 2 macs for $15.. What a deal! They've got quite a few Q650/C650's there. But check inside first. If they have a surface mounted CPU, then it is most likely an LC and won't run AUX.

My mom smoked from High School up to I think 1999/2000. She got really sick and started smoking the light cigarettes and eventually I talked to her and she decided to quit. I took away all of the ash trays and she bought the patches and now she's smoke free, with the money we saved we can afford broadband! :)

Does anyone know if they'll actually let you look inside the machines at EDS in arlington though? i didn't think to poke around and stuff...because of course when i look at it i'm like "ooh, i want it, but where will i put it?" (there's not much space in the house and i don't want to put them in the garage...) but i'm worried about buying a mac and then getting either really frustrated for one reason or another or spending far too much money that i don't have on it to get it working...and i don't quite feel like buying a machine and then finding out i'm missing say, the ROM and scouring everywhere for one, y'know? so any answers to this would be appreciated...

on another note, there's a goodwill computer works in fort worth right by the south campus of TCC, by the intersection of campus dr. and riverside...take I-20 to the campus drive exit, drive past TCC (head between the campus and the car dealership) and just go straight ...it dead ends at riverside, and the goodwill is right there. i haven't been there to see if they have any macs though, but they just might...
anyway, take care and good luck hunting.

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