Virgina Area: iBooks for $50!

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On August 9th, 2005, Henrico County Public Schools will add insult to injury by selling off their used iBooks for $50 each. Want one? Here are the details:

"One-thousand laptops will be sold at the school warehouse, which is located at 361 Dabbs House Road beside the Eastern Government Center. The laptops will be sold on a first-come, first-serve basis. There will be no waiting list. Only cash or checks will be accepted."

For more information, contact Mychael Dickerson, director of media relations and safety for Henrico County Public Schools, at 804-652-3724.

― Tumililingan (ex machina), Sunday, 24 July 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

virgina?

― not gettin' hassled, not gettin' hustled (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 24 July 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

Is that not virginia?

― Tumililingan (ex machina), Sunday, 24 July 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

ME GRANS VIRGINIA AREA IS FOOKIN SPOT ON LAD THE GRAY FLAPS ARE LIKE WEHN U HAVE A BIT OF BAKON IN THE FRIDGE FOR TIME AND IT GOEDS ALL GRAY LIKE HER GRAY FLAPS FOOKIN HELL LAD MAKES ME SPUNKY JUST FINKING ABOUT TI

― GARU G, Sunday, 24 July 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

flanginia

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 24 July 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/16/computer.frenzy.ap/index.html

How'd it go?

― San Carlos, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

COMPUTAR FENRZY AT VIRGINA AREA

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

― San Carlos, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

need i even mention in what way i misread this thread title?

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

I'm not sure I would pay $50 for a G3 iBook that some middle-schooler has been carting around and downloading internet porn for the last four years.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

http://i4.ebayimg.com/01/i/04/b6/dc/f6_12_sb.JPG

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

i love america sometimes

― strng hlkngtn, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 02:07 (twenty years ago)

One woman went so far to wet herself rather than surrender her place in line.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 03:12 (twenty years ago)

Witnesses said an elderly man was thrown to the pavement, and someone in a car tried to drive his way through the crowd.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 03:12 (twenty years ago)

Jesse Sandler said he was one of the people pushing forward, using a folding chair he had brought with him to beat back people who tried to cut in front of him.

"I took my chair here and I threw it over my shoulder and I went, 'Bam,"' the 20-year-old said nonchalantly, his eyes glued to the screen of his new iBook, as he tapped away on the keyboard at a testing station.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 03:13 (twenty years ago)

"It's rather strange that we would have such a tremendous response for the purchase of a laptop computer -- and laptop computers that probably have less-than- desirable attributes," said Paul Proto, director of general services for Henrico County.

public servants in not-understanding-public ... well, you know the rest.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 03:15 (twenty years ago)

holy. shit.
I am starting a band called Virginia ibook Response. Every song: Blips, then metal, then noize, then more blips. Finally, deep dark silence.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

fuck waiting in line for ten hours ... these idiots could've sucked ten hours worth of dick and they'd be rolling in powerbooks

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

My new insult du jour is "Suck ten hours worth of dick and go roll in a powerbook".

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 03:28 (twenty years ago)

I don't live in Virgina, but I'm wondering how heavily this was advertised. I glanced at the article, and remembered this thread (which turned into nothing that had to do with ibooks right away).

― San Carlos, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 07:22 (twenty years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4159678.stm
A sale of second-hand Apple laptops costing only $50 have caused a near riot in Virginia in the US...In the crush, people were trampled on, a chair was thrown, an elderly man was pushed to the ground, a baby's buggy was crushed and one desperate buyer tried to drive his car through the crowd.

-- beanz (beanzil...), August 17th, 2005 8:55 AM.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

doh – thanks teeny

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/assets/img/data/2430/bild.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

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