To all with interest in IBM 7090

----- Original Message ----- From: "Mouse" <mouse at rodents-montreal.org> To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 12:43 AM Subject: Re: To all with interest in IBM 7090 Actually they are on ebay for $2.45 shipped and work bidirectional. Example: http://www.ebay.com/itm/IDE-TO-Serial-ATA-I-II-Hard-Drive-HDD-Converter-Con… To be honest for small commodity items I just order stuff from ebay, they are all made in China or Asia anyway so you might as well get them from the source and shipping is pretty fast on small parts. I don't know of an electronics surplus place in NE Ohio, and Best Buy charges a mint for cables and stuff I only head out there for DVD media when I am low and they have a sale. WWW ordering has taken over what used to be mail ordering of computer parts (loved that in the 1990's). Since everything is pretty much manufactured overseas surplus stores will either turn into cheap resellers of stuff they buy direct from China or they will go out of business. Sooner or later anything old you need is going to come from a collector who hoarded it when it was dumped, everything else is getting recycled by the ton.