[geeks] [FS/FT] Via PC-1 (PC2500E) MB/CPU - $30 + s/h

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net>
>Date: 2008/02/25 Mon PM 07:56:10 CST
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] [FS/FT] Via PC-1 (PC2500E) MB/CPU - $30 + s/h

>On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 05:02:04PM -0600, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> This has been spoken for - it will be on it's way to Joshua in the
>> morning... Thanks!
>
>Dammit I should have first right of refusal as list admin!  pshaw! 8-)

Bill,

Joshua jumped on it in less than a minute[0], and the last time this MB was discussed on the list you seemed interested, but since you'd need to secure "the rest of the PC" to have something functional and had no money, it didn't seem to make sense (unless I was willing to give you a case, PS, and RAM for the unit)...

I honestly considered sending you the MB as a gift, but it seemed like a form of what I call a gift of "stone soup"[1] (since you'd need to find all the other bits).[2]

Lionel

[0] Headers from Joshua's request:

>From: Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net>
>Date: 2008/02/25 Mon AM 09:36:11 CST
>To: Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at verizon.net>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] [FS/FT] Via PC-1 (PC2500E) MB/CPU - $30 + s/h

>On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:35:36AM -0600, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> I bought this a while ago, threw it in a box and played with it a bit, 
>> deciding I didn't need it.

Note the time gap! Not even 45 seconds ;^) I couldn't pretend that I got a response faster than that...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_soup

[2] If you can make use of a small Via C7-based system (800 MHz CPU, CD-ROM, floppy w/o RAM or HD) I'll send it out to you as a consolation gift. I posted about this earlier[3] but got no takers...

[3] http://www.sunhelp.org/pipermail/geeks/2008-February/061330.html