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I would love love love one of these machines to run Windows NT and some flavour or ancient Unix. I’m in Australia and desperately looking for an old PowerPC. Do
by hestefisk 6y ago
I would love love love one of these machines to run Windows NT and some flavour or ancient Unix. I’m in Australia and desperately looking for an old PowerPC. Does anyone know where to dig these machines up? Yes I tried eBay but it is prohibitively expensive to post from overseas to Sydney.
- kev009 6y agoeBay sellers are often silly (I miss when it was an actual auction site instead of a shitty amalgamation of Amazon's 3rd party sellers and craigslist) although a lot of these vintage UNIX machines are now worth at least $100USD or more. Your best bet would be to find a private computer collector in AU or a mailing list like cctalk and express your interest.
- bigger_cheese 6y agoEx-government auctions have stuff occasionally. When I used to live in Canberra every two month or so one would be advertised could get lots of old hardware for dirt cheap. Mostly old Sun Sparc stuff but sometimes HP or IBM power based hardware too. I imagine Sydney would have similar auctions.
- hestefisk 6y agoCan I ask on what web site you have found there auctions?