12 Apr
2001
12 Apr
'01
1:58 p.m.
Must be UIUC stuff, the NCSA is HQ'd around there somewhere.. Mmmm.. vintage
supercomputers....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Russ Blakeman" <rhblake(a)bigfoot.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 11:19 AM
Subject: RE: Chicago Area Sites
The bad thing is with all that industry and potential
for lots of excess,
the scrappers get a lot of it direct and strip it for various
reclaimables.
Which brings up a though for people further south in IL...There is a
scrapper in Urbana IL that does much the same and I've seen PDP's, IBM
6262
printers, Univac remotes and all sorts of heavy items
go through there
back
when I lived there up until 93. I used to go parts
searching for my truck
and didn't really have the room or need for classics then but anyone that
is
in the area of C-U and want to explore a possible
venue should go to I-74
at
Lincoln and go north on Lincoln just across the road
from the UPS center.
I
forget the name of the yard but they charge by the
pound rather than by
what
they think they can get for it. If you check into what
they have in the
big
building up front you migth find interesting stuff on
a regular basis.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
> [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Jason McBrien
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 9:20 AM
> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Chicago Area Sites
>
>
> There's American Science and Surplus which is out on the outskirts of
> Chicago on Milwaukee(sp?), they also have a few branches scattered
around
> the suburbs. I'm vacationing in Chicago for a
few days at the end of the
> month and would like to know any other places that have anything as
well.
> You'd think there'd be tons of surplus
computer places around that area,
> what with Argonne, FermiLab, Newark Electronics, and Motorola all living
> near.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Brown" <bbrown(a)harper.cc.il.us>
> To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 9:20 AM
> Subject: Chicago Area Sites
>
>
> > I have still never seen anyone on the list post any info on
> > good places in the Chicago area to find computer goodies....
> >
> > Either there aren't many people on the list familier with this area,
or
> there
aren't any good places in this area (hard to believe due to the
> population), or the people who know are keeping it to themselves...
>
> I've lived here all my life and I still don't know if a good surplus
> computer store around here...anyone with any ideas?
>
> thanks.
>
> -Bob
>
>