RE-PC Finds

For those in or near the Seattle area, RE-PC has turned up some pretty cool stuff. First, some intriguing VMEBus systems. From what I can tell, they were made by Charles River Data Systems and, although they may not be terribly useful as a system in their current state, the VME backplane is very much an industry standard and can be adapted to just about any VME cards you might want to plug into it. They also have a pile of Cipher 9-track tape drives. These are the front-loading 880 series, 1600/3200 density, Pertec interface. I've looked over several of them, and most look like they've had barely any use at all (I picked one up yesterday to repair another I already have). And, if you want a rack to put such goodies into, they've got a blortload of retired five-foot high Sun racks. Although wider on the outside than the norm, all appear to be standard 19" on the inside rails. Just about all of 'em are in clean shape, and going for around $50 per. I think, last time I looked, they wanted no more than $20/unit for the tape drives, and I don't think the VME systems would be horribly expensive either. If interested, give a call to the Tukwila store at (206) 575-8737. Ask for Eric Meiney, tell him I referred you, and you're off and running. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies E-Mail: kyrrin (at) jps [d=o=t] net (munged to screw up spambots) Sent on 13-Sep-98 at 08:16:56, Pacific -- http://table.jps.net/~kyrrin "...No matter how much we may wish otherwise, our science can only describe an object, event, or living creature in our own human terms. It cannot possibly define any of them..." -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-