Warpstock 99 - Atlanta, October 16-17, 1999
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Source: (timur@tabi.org)
Moderator: Christopher B. Wright (wrightc@dtcweb.com)
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Every Monday, I'll be reporting on OS/2-related items for sale on
http://www.ebay.com and the comp.os.os2.marketplace newsgroup. Even if
you're not thinking about buying anything OS/2 related, you might find
something that catches your interested.

On eBay, there are several copies of OS/2 2.x, Warp 3, Warp 4, and Lotus
applications available for sale, as well as several OS/2 books, mostly for
OS/2 2.x or Warp 3.  There are also a number of magazines for sale, in
particular someone is selling a collection of about 20 issues from 5
magazines ("OS/2 Professional Magazine Issues & More OS2").

In the software category, we have: NetOp for OS/2, DB2/2 1.01, CM/2, Drive
Image 2.0, GalCiv, the Gammatech Utils, Seagate Backup, Colorado Backup, a
CD of drivers for Lexmark printers, and Corel SCSI 2.0. Someone's also
selling a homemade CD of various versions of Star Office.

For those of you looking for a good PCI video card, I recommend you check
out the Elsa Winner 3000-L I'm selling on eBay. Back when Elsa cared about
OS/2, they made fantastic OS/2 drivers, and the 3000-L comes with both
GRADD and non-GRADD drivers.

For collectors, we have: some OS/2 post-it notes, an interest OS/2 t-shirt
(from Microsoft?), and the uncensored version of an OS/2 video featuring
the famous David Barnes (you have to check out the description!).

For programmers, we have Borland C++, an unspecified VisualAge compiler
(probably Java), and a couple programming books.

On comp.os.os2.marketplace, there are some OS/2 books for sale (including
the valueable "Developing Multimedia Applications Under OS/2"), File
Commander/2, Sytos Backup.

For those of you who are wondering if there's any money in selling you're
old OS/2 stuff, I can tell you that most items only go for a few dollars. 
However, there are exceptions.  I recently sold my copy of Colorworks 2.0
and three plug-in kits for a grand total of $310. 

Those of you looking to sell your OS/2 related stuff, I strongly recommend
you put it on eBay and post an announcement on comp.os.os2.marketplace. If
you include the word "OS/2" in the title of your description, I'll see it
and include it in the next report.

I need to stress that you create a THOROUGH description of the product,
preferably with a picture.  Some people just don't get it: the description
for GalCiv doesn't even say which version it is, and the description for
"VisualAge 2.0" doesn't even tell you whether it's a Java or C++ compiler!
Only a moron would expect people to bid high on an item without a 
thorough description.  One thing that really helps is to include a hotlink
to the manufacturer's web page for the product, if it's still available. A
lot of manufacturers include tons of information for all their older
products, because it doesn't cost them any money to keep that information
around.

If you're looking for OS/2 items on eBay, search on the phrase
("OS/2",OS2), including the parentheses.




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