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RE: [Plug] Fwd: Your application has been approved for a Free-PC
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that too, and we all know how many of them we have lying around the house
;-)
-----Original Message-----
From: plug-admin@lists.nothinbut.net
[mailto:plug-admin@lists.nothinbut.net]On Behalf Of Nick R
Sent: Sunday, September 05, 1999 9:57 AM
To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
Subject: RE: [Plug] Fwd: Your application has been approved for a
Free-PC
And in case they have some kind of insane monitoring software, perhaps leave
the mouse on a vibrator.
>From: "Jack Wilkinson" <jackw@jounce.net>
>Reply-To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
>To: <plug@lists.nothinbut.net>
>Subject: RE: [Plug] Fwd: Your application has been approved for a Free-PC
>Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 08:11:09 -0400
>
>It's not quite that bad...
>
>Cyrix 300
>32M
>4.0GB
>56K
>Floppy, 32X CD
>15" mon
>keyboard, speakers
>
>doesn't say anything about a mouse, though there's one pictured.
>
>the speakers in the picture don't look any worse than the little magnavox
>speakers I have on my box that look like what you'd plug into a walkman...
>the case, you can't do much with, small desktop case, nothing major.
>
>I signed up my sister for one. She could never afford a system at her
>place, and so this is definitely a deal for her. She'd prolly be happy
>with
>a P133 with 32 and a drive that left abour 300mb free. All you have to do
>to
>fulfill the requirements is leave it on overnight running realaudio or
>playing an mp3 list or something if it needs to be interactive usage (don't
>recall). For free, there's not much room for picking and choosing.
>
>Nick R wrote:
> >
> > You remember that whole FreePC deal? Well I just got this. So what do
>you
> > all think? The part about the credit card scares me a bit. It would also
>be
> > nice to see the specs so I could tell if it's worth stripping it for
>parts.
> > That does fall under what you can do as long as the HD is intact and you
>run
> > a system off of that for 10 hours a month. Anything anybody could tell
>me
> > about this would be very helpful. BTW, follow that link to register and
>read
> > all of the specifics of the deal.
>
>I really doubt that you're going to get much for "free". It's probably
>a 300MHz Cyrix with 24M (4M of which will be used for graphics card
>functions), a 2G drive, 1G of which will be devoted to their use
>(buffering ads, maintaining a database of where you surf and how long
>you spend on each site, which will be uploaded once a month or so), a
>winmodem, a 15" monitor and some cheesy speakers. It's already
>obsolete, and you're committing to use it for three years, by which time
>it'll be worth absolutely nothing. But hey, at least you won't be
>paying $20/month for MSN or some other access provider, which means at
>least your "free" ($400 with a $400 rebate) PC won't cost you $720...
>
>-- Tracy Nelson
>
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