[rescue] Looking for 3Com 3500

[Michael Dombrowski]

 I priced out a CB3500 with 3x modules... $1300. I guess that does not strike me as reasonable, but I don't know the retro networking market as well as the retro computing market. 

Somewhat related - I don't know MTM, but I have had a terrible experience with internet resellers. I've not had a successful purchase yet: I either get a follow up email that the item advertised as "in stock" is out of stock, or there has been a pricing mistake and they are happy to offer it for 3x what they advertised it for. This was my experience over and over again. Just yesterday I was quoted a price and when I asked to buy the part the seller responded about what a great deal it was (higher than last Ebay sale which included the cable), and why don't I also buy some more parts. 

Not saying that there aren't good vendors out there, but I've had much better luck with Ebay and private sellers recently. 

mike

    On Thursday, September 26, 2024 at 09:38:51 PM CDT, Joshua D. Boyd via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:  
 
 And sells it for a price low enough that I wouldn't want to bother digging mine out to sell.

On September 26, 2024 5:29:04 PM EDT, Henry Bent via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
On Thu, 26 Sept 2024 at 17:25, Michael Dombrowski via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
Hi all,
I've decided to extend my retro computing into a bit of retro networking and I'm looking for a 3com Corebuilder 3500 chassis and/or modules
Thanks
Mike


The first google hit for "3com corebuilder 3500", which I looked up because I was not familiar with this specific piece of hardware, was a link to a place that sells them.
-Henry
 
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