I remember attending a military base auction once a few years back... the auction was broken up into lots, one lot in particular I was checking out listed at <$500 and included the following items:

~20 XTS-300 tempest form factor systems, perhaps two years old at the time, their price new is ~$80,000 _EACH_.
About $200,000 (as is) worth of assorted RF test equipment.
A few office furniture items (a desk, a few chairs, and such)

And then... two 50 gallon drums of mystery substance that you needed to pay to dispose of.

Now I can't even comprehend what must have been in these drums, that 100 gallons makes up for the over a third of a million dollars.

So... cheap computers, but ya better read the fine print.

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