Anywhere the river of money flows.
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reddragdivaGeekly 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 ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
disastrid on her London tour. We can commiserate about missing cards.
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Date: 2004-10-04 09:12 am (UTC)Any luck getting hold of Camden Town or Kings Cross btw? You could probably get their numbers from Customer Services. I've checked my notebooks but don't have those numbers, alas. You should also call oyster about your Oyster card so they can blacklist it - otherwise if someone picked it up, they can use your Travelcard. The advantage with Oyster cards is that they can alert the system so that specific card will not function anywhere on the TfL network - buses as well as the Underground. Plus the sooner you notify them, the sooner you can get a replacement.
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Date: 2004-10-04 02:28 pm (UTC)The ultimate old skool indestructible laptop
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