[rescue] Looking for sun 13w3 monitor or 13w3 to VGA adapter

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Friday 21 December 2007, Richard wrote:
> In article <20071221163920.GH12949 at mrbill.net>,
>
>     Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net>  writes:
> > Nobody here really wants CRTs at all anymore.
>
> There are people who collect SGI gear that like the SGI branded
> monitors.  People want the CRTs, they just don't want to pay the
> packing and shipping :-).
>
> As a terminal collector, I can understand that.  You buy a terminal
> for like $0.99 and then pay $400 having it shipped :-).

"You pay $0 and then pay $1k to have it shipped" is more like the stuff 
I tend to collect...

Of course, I've never tried to get a rack of gear shipped *to* me from 
overseas.  That would probably end up being much more than $1k.  And, I 
try to avoid buying anything but parts if they have to be shipped to 
me.  Limiting the collecting radius to places that I can drive in ~6hrs 
or so (and owning a box truck with a lift-gate) helps a lot in bringing 
down the per-item delivery costs. :)  Compared with freight shipping 
all the stuff I've collected, the money I've spent on the truck really 
is just chunk change.

Pat
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