I suppose if you want to truely be a bottom feeder, go to the Hennepin County transfer station in Brooklyn Park and ask if you can rummage through their electronics collection dumpster. If you can find 2 or three computers there you might have enough for a complete system. You might find some components that work. -- Timothy. On 9/12/2010 8:41 PM, mn-linux.org at cyberians.net wrote: > Some places I have used to recycle pcs, to buy refurbished systems or > simply to located some obsolete part... > > Box Shop-Dirt Cheap Computers > 9040 Lyndale Avenue South, Bloomington, MN 55420-3521 (763) 535-1227 > > http://www.striketwice.com > > http://www.reboot-store.com > > http://www.partstockpc.com > > http://orphancomputers.com > > but i would be interested to hear of others, and what your experience > has been too... > > > Quoting "Jason Hsu, embedded engineer, Linux user"<jhsu802701 at jasonhsu.com>: > >> I have two very old desktop computers (early-2000s vintage), and I >> am considering replacing one of them with a somewhat newer desktop >> computer (mid-2000s vintage). >> >> What stores sell used computers? >> >> -- >> Jason Hsu, Linux-literate embedded engineer >> (952) 715-7661 >> embedded_engineer at jasonhsu.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >