9 Feb
2010
9 Feb
'10
12:53 p.m.
On Feb 9, 2010, at 3:02 PM, Teo Zenios wrote:
Care to share? ;)
I hope you rescued that MicroVAX.
Yea I got it, 3100-85. Will play around with it a bit and probably
pass it on to a DEC collector from this list. Anybody have a spare
DEC serial cable with those MJJ plugs?
Excellent! Send me your shipping address.
I've tried. I had a list of such places that I visited weekly
when I lived in Maryland; it was glorious. There's nothing like that
down here.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Horribly sad
to see. I'm in the thick of it, my house is
currently the only one on my street that isn't bank-owned, and
never heard about ANY collectibles needing homes. Where did you
see this stuff?
Different forums I read before heading to bed. The problem with those deals is finding somebody local
to pick
items up since the owners are in a big hurry to get out and can't
be shipping things all over (or they would have gone to ebay to
begin with). A few years back I got a free loaded A3000 (just paid
a local friend to ship it) when a guy had to relocate for work ASAP
and since few people lived in that area of AZ ended up junking a
garage full of vintage gear. My friend made out with a few old
Apple items like the original portable. I would have been in heaven
if I was close enough to drive a truck there. We had something like
a weeks notice from the time he posted the stuff on a forum to grab
what we could before it all hit the dumpster. I don't have the
emails handy for the item list, but quite a few things worth some
money ended up in a landfill.
:-(
Another goldmine is the kid who gets tons of vintage
gear from who
knows where and their parents make them get rid of it all after the
house gets overrun. I see that happen way too often in the mac croud.
That's horribly disheartening. I'm glad my parents recognized the
fact that it'd be better for the house to be full of equipment that
they didn't recognize than have me out selling/doing drugs like
everyone else in my school.
> Even newer
stuff is rare in some areas. I tripped over a DEC
MicroVAX last week at a recycler,
which is rare in my area. If
you want older stuff you need to be in larger cities where the
stuff was purchased new and used. I bet anything ever made can
be found in the NYC area, of course there are millions of other
would be collectors looking there too. There are
some biggish cities around here, though nothing like
NYC of course. Tampa is nontrivial. Zero classic hardware
there though. Lots of cool stuff (lots of modern IBM mainframes
in Tampa) but nothing old.
The recycler here sometimes get a semi load from places like
Cleveland (maybe Pittsburgh) to take apart. I think that is where
the microvax came from, same with a bunch of PS/2 machines last
year. They are currently crunching a bunch of rackmount computers
and misc consumer grade computers. I go every friday and dig
around. I suggest you find a small time recycler in the area and
see what shows up.