> Well, it's an auction. Generally it runs til noon or so, with the > computer stuff being towards the end. There's other stuff too, like > de-commisioned cop cars and confiscated stuff from drug busts and the > like. Occasionally you'll find better computers that have been seized > than what our department throws out, but it's not common. occasionally there are some humorous moments; like at the '99 auction, they sold off a Cyrix 200, with a couple of boxes of garbage Windows software, plus some surge suppressors, plus a 'monitor', for $300. the 'monitor' was a Wyse dumb terminal. :) I'd hate to be the guy who bought it... betcha it's still sitting in boxes somewhere because he can't figure out how to plug the 'monitor' in. ;> at the same auction, I bought a stack of 486/25's and /33's... still have some of them. raped the memory out of most of them, and ended up with a few usable firewalls. $10 for 3 486/25's is a pretty good deal, even if one or two of them go belly-up later. (dead power supply and dead video... wasn't worth fixing them). there were a couple of 486/66s that went for $60/ea; but the buyer later told me there were 32MB SIMMS in them... (for 1999, a really good buy). Carl Soderstrom. -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700