10 Dec
2001
10 Dec
'01
6:17 p.m.
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Jeff Hellige wrote:
University of Texas surplus auctions were a good place to find old gear up
till Texas passed a bill regarding the sale of used computer equipment
Are there ever
any auctions of computers, period, other than online
or industrial?
Anymore it's most likely to be common PC stuff, but you used to be
able to get some pretty cool non-DOS/WIndows stuff from government
DRMO auctions. Places such as Navy Research Lab in Washington D.C.
had oodles of non-PC stuff, such as NeXT's, Osborne's, Atari ST's,
Amiga's...you name it. Six or seven years ago I got quite a bit of
interesting stuff at such auctions when I was first starting to really
build this collection. from government agencies. Now they send all the old
computer gear to the
prison system...I saw 3-4 AS-400 IBM systems about a year ago,
and they
wouldn't auction them off...they sent them to the prisons...Sad thing is,
I imagine they all ended up sold to a scrap metal dealer.
Speaking of auctions in Texas, we have an auction in Houston on Wednesday,
there won't be any computers or monitors in it, but it might have other
stuff worth looking at. I usually end up repairing about 75% of the things
I buy at these auctions before I can use them. I'm planning to attend this
auction unless something comes up. Is there anyone else here who might
show up? Heres a url with more info:
http://www.shattuck.com/Live_Auctions/live_auctions.html
-Toth