I advertised my HP86 system with the HP Museum classified site, and after a time succeeded in selling it to a company in France that still uses the 86 for process control in chemical manufacturing. I received a number of legitimate inquiries, as well as a slew of responses from our Nigerian friends. These Nigerian emails were mostly comical, and followed the typical pattern of offering to send large cashiers checks, with the excess amount to be forwarded to "an associate". Yeah, right...Most of the Nigerian replys were from people who had two first names.
The HP86B sold for $150, which is pretty good for a computer that is over twenty years old, had 128k of memory, and no hard drive. (Not to mention the green monochrome monitor and dot-matrix printer...). I was more interested in it finding a good home than making any money, and couldn't bear the thought of throwing it away. (The shipping cost was
$250!).
Thanks for the site! Fritz
HP86 sold thru HP museum ad, spammers
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