12 Jan
2005
12 Jan
'05
9:06 a.m.
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Al Kossow wrote:
Weird Stuff in Milpitas was great. That was where I
found
most of my Xerox stuff. With 20/20 hindsight (and more space)
I should have grabbed things like the PDP12 that came in and
the PERQ 1.
Oh the stuff I didn't know to grab when I first went to WeirdStuff in
Milpitas back in, oh, 1993. I only recall seeing a couple Lisas there
(priced at what I thought was way too much at I think $50 each). I did
get this interesting Northern Telecom terminal phone (that I still haven't
gotten to work...I never got the right power supply with it).
Halted didn't (and still doesn't) do much for
me. I got to
Too bad Halted doesn't ever budged on their as-is prices. Not that they
have much of anything that cool.
know the last batch of folks running Haltek pretty
well, and
I was the one that bought their data book collection when they
were forced out.
It's a shame Haltek went away. Excess Solutions may be the next to go
unfortunately.
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