About two months ago. An IBM Thinkpad T21 laptop computer. It sold new for $3699 USD back in 2001, and it's selling used for $225 USD on eBay today, but it's still far and away the best find in the grey box thus far. I found it one day when I was unexpectedly working from home, along with a lot of other high quality items - it looked to me like someone was moving in with someone else and getting rid of a lot of their older - but still high quality - stuff. (That was a great day in the history of the grey box - see above.) I had to go pick up a power supply and a wireless card from the lunatics out at Cal's Computer Warehouse, which set me back about $50, and I had to spend a couple of hours on the phone to Windows (making up a very sad story about an ex-girlfriend leaving town and bequeathing to me the laptop, but not the correct Windows product key - the sixth operator I told the tale to finally broke down and just gave me a number so I could active the fucking thing) but, all in all, that's not too steep a price to pay for a classic like the T21. And now I can sell my PC. Anyone out there want it?
Many thanks, grey box. Many thanks.
Monday, May 28, 2007
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