If you build a wayback machine that will take you to
the 1990's, the UBC
SERF sales were way above excellent. Everything from mass spectrometers
to near-complete working -11 and -8 systems.
I'm told they don't happen anymore :-(.
Probably because technology marches on. I wonder if anyone has tried
to apply Moore's law to surplus electronics?
In the 1990s we thought nothing of buying 17 pallets from Intel or 22
gaylords from Pacific NW Bell or 200,000 of surplus radio electronics
from BPA. I remember Boeing selling rows and rows of
PDP11s, mostly
780s and peripherals. About 1990 we bought all of the original Data
Generals (nova 2s and 3s) from Payless drug when they were upgrading.
Those were fun days.
The University of Washington still has sales and auctions but I
haven't been to one in years. I keep thinking of going. I do get their
email notifications and the auctions now offer online bidding.
Paxton
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Paxton Hoag
Astoria, OR
USA