Anywhere the river of money flows.

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Geekly trepidation! We just won a £250 bid (£318.74 after postage and VAT) on five IBM Thinkpad 560X laptops in unknown but likely to run working order. With one each and others for parts, plus the dead one we have here, I think we'll be putting a couple up a bit later. And we can use our other recent geek purchase, a USB external caddy for 2.5" hard drives, to install them!

The 560X is utterly obsolete (Pentium MMX 233MHz; enough grunt to play MP3s, not quite enough for DVDs), but has a lovely form factor and weight and so remains quite popular. Definitely one of IBM's winners. eBay going rate is £80 to £120.

What a time to lose my credit card. Thankfully they accepted Switch. Should be arriving Wednesday.

(The spare room now contains two working PCs, one working Macintosh, two non-working PCs and a dead 560X. We'll build a proper geek junkheap!)

In non-geek news, tonight I expect to meet up with disastrid on her London tour. We can commiserate about missing cards.