Can I see your ad? It must have some magic wording or something ;D .

Congratulations, nonetheless! I have had a little bit of success lately with freecycle: I got rid of one older PC I don't really want, and I have lined up a Mac Plus with lots of neat looking accessories (tow hard drives, a Mac 128/512 keyboard (the closest I'll get to the real thing for awhile, I think), and I forget what else... Oh, and original System disks).

It's astonishing what one can get for free if they're persistent.

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