Here's A Great Place for Surplus DEC

Hi All: For those close to Ottawa, Ontario, I've found a fantastic source of DEC boards and associated equipment: Computer Recyclers Inc. 10 Rideau Heights Drive, Nepean, Ontario K2E 7A6 Canada (613) 723-3135 Fax: (613) 723-4607 I've been to Ottawa 3 times in the past year (work related), and each time they've had HUNDREDS of boards, systems, cables, etc., tons of stuff from DEC and other DEC sites. They are recyclers, i.e. they feed dumpsters and metal recyclers, so prices are great. Dual height boards are flat rate $5 CDN, quad height flat rate $10 CDN. If you need boards, power supplies, backplanes, rails, racks, cables, drives, terminals, printers, etc then this is a good place to check. My finds from last week included 2 TK70 drives and a TQK70 controller for $25. Unfortunately the selection is largely hit and miss as they move systems through pretty quickly. There's currently no inventory, you have to show up and look through their oil drums of boards etc. I did, on my last trip, provide them with the "dec field guide" board inventory document, and suggest to the owner that they catalog and sell their boards on the net, but we'll have to see if they do so. For PC types, they also have some PC class stuff, mainboards, etc but I didn't really look at these. For info of the group, Kevin --- Kevin McQuiggin VE7ZD mcquiggi(a)sfu.ca