7 Jul
2005
7 Jul
'05
5:34 p.m.
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Joe R. wrote:
BTW this brings up an important point. I've
gone out with a lot of
different computer hunters and I was shocked to find out that most of you
fail to look through the baskets of cables and old boards. I ALWAYS find
I'm not surprised. It's a lot of work, and most people are lazy. The
random crap bins are where I find some of my best stuff.
lots of goodies in them! For example, I went with Gary
Hildebrand to
computer recycling place in Topeka Kansas and he had just been asking me
for some 1Mb ICs for the Commodore Amiga computers. When we got the the
recycler's we looked through all the computers (I found a black B&H Apple),
then I went and looked through their board scrap and found not just the ICs
that he wanted but they were also on original Amiga boards! Gary was
shocked! He said that he'd been to this same place many times before but
never thought to look in the board scrap! Besides computer cables, cable
scrap almost always includes hings like logic analyzer pods and
oscilloscope probes that make good trading material.
One of these days I'll find that Apple 1 board in the scrap boards bin :)
strict! The key to sucessful computer hunting is to
find the companies
that buy or are given old electronics for recycling (not the get-rich-quick
Or you can start your own...
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Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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