29 Dec
1998
29 Dec
'98
11:10 a.m.
Phil,
They're in the Melbourne area. One is a surplus place but a lot of the
"good" stuff never gets to their store sincce they figure no one wants it.
They had PILES of MACs a few weeks ago. BTW I was there the other day and
found the remains of a CRAY!! It was already gutted, nothing left but the
frame and power supply.
The other is a company that buys old computers and tears them down for
scrap. I've found lots of interesting stuff there. They usually charge by
the size. Lap top computers are $10, SUN computers are $50 -$75 or MORE
(he's no dummy!), old HP computers are $10 to $20.
You should definitely check out the scrap places there. Make sure they
know that you're interested in OLD computers. Lots of those places are
caught up in the two-years-old-and-it's-obselete PC cycle. Make up some
cards and leave them with them. Give them my number for HP calculators and
other stuff :-)
Joe
At 12:18 PM 11/25/98 -0500, you wrote:
Hi Joe,
Where is this scrap place you are talking about?
I know there are a couple of them here, never thought of looking there
before. Do they sell you the stuff as scrap ?
Or by the pound..?
Phil..
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe <rigdonj(a)intellistar.net>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Wednesday, November 25, 1998 9:27 AM
Subject: more interesting finds!
I went to a scrap place yesterday and found a
couple of interesting items.
One is a 16K core memory board for a Data General Nova. Huge sucker! It's
marked "DATA GENERAL CORP DGC NOVA 800 16K MEMORY STACK copyright 1973".
Anyone need this or should I just hang it on the wall to admire?
I also found several odd looking boxs that are labled as HDS ViewStation.
they're made by a company called Human Designed Systems. They're about 2"
tall and 12" square. They have connectors for all the following; thick and
thin ethernet, twisted pair, sun keyboard, standard PC keyboard, RJ serial
port, DB-25 serial, DB-25 parallel, PS-2 mouse and standard VGA video.
Does anyone know what these are or why they have so many ports?
Joe