20 Aug
1998
20 Aug
'98
1:46 p.m.
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Francois wrote:
Hi John,
I would love to join you in that effort. I am also interested in acquiring
on of each unit. Maybe we can poll our resources and make a few people happy
in the process.
Anyway, Eric if you can find out the actual cost per palette that would be a
great indicator of the fund needed.
Typically, when stuff is sold for scrap like that, it is sold by the
pound. Some of my friends here in the electronic salvage speak of buying
at 3 cents/pound. If that is a near valid figure there, then a penny
over would likely get the whole load rather cheaply.
- don
Thank you for flagging this one.
Francois
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-----Original Message-----
From: John R. Keys Jr. <jrkeys(a)concentric.net>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Wednesday, August 19, 1998 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: Macs, IBM systems, roms, etc etc...
donm(a)cts.com
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Don Maslin - Keeper of the Dina-SIG CP/M System Disk Archives
Chairman, Dina-SIG of the San Diego Computer Society
Clinging tenaciously to the trailing edge of technology.
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visit the "Unofficial" CP/M Web site at http://cdl.uta.edu/cpm
with Mirror at http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~cfs/cpm
I'm right here in the Twincities also and
would like to purchase some of
the machines. Here's my offer to those on the list that want some of these
items in one's and two's e-mail your list and the price you want to pay for
each item and I will make them a offer for all of it. You have only pay me
the shipping cost plus the item cost. If I get it all cheap enough them I
will divide the number of units into the price I pay and charge the lower
price per unit. Say I get 100 items at $300 that means the cost per item
would be $3. I do not need it all I also just want one of each type of unit
for my collection that I do not already have. Let me know as soon as
possible before it's all gone. Thanks Eric for the tip and I will get back
to my Friday with some type of offer based me being able maybe see some of
these units.
At 09:09 PM 8/19/98 -0500, you wrote:
Ok, after a few more days of scoping things out,
here's the deal: I
started working for GE Capital, at Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Minnesota.
They are disposing of alot of the mac systems, and I figured that I
would be able to pull the ROM's out of the old ones that I knew were
never going to be used again, ever. (Just so you know, I would probably
lose my job due to that but it's a shame to let such things go to waste.
If someone reading this is from my new employers, I haven't done
anything!!!!!)
Anyway, one of my bosses, the asset manager, is actively trying to
dispose of pallets of stuff. So if someone out there can actually buy
quite a bit, that might be nice... apparently last year he made 300
bucks selling all systems to scrap dealers that melted it all for the
metal content. bummer.)
We have lots of old IBM mainframe systems, Quads, CRTs, etc etc. also,
a good lot of those macs were all used by the Graphic Design dept; so
they are chock full of cool stuff (tons of ram, souped up video cards,
yadda yadda.) lots of hard drives, all have token ring cards. (I
reiterate: LOTS of token ring cards. I'm swimming in them.) I currently
have a large pallet of mac 14/15 inch monitors; a pallet of IIsi, IIci,
IIcx's; Quadra 700s, Quadra 950 servers(awesome machines), PowerPC
7100/66, 7100/80's. also other random ones. also, *several* pallets of
Duo Dock 230's and 280's. tons of NEC versa V/50's and 4000c's. quite a
few 21 inch mac color monitors (definitely not for sale, unless you made
an attractive offer to my boss!)
alot of this stuff is earmarked for employee sales, but alot of it is
also headed for disposal. If anyone is truly interested, I will print
out and give serious inquiries to my boss. emailing the head of a large
national corporation won't do much, but I can give your requests to the
right person.
in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
-Eric
(PS. - I only offered to grab roms or small chip components because
they wouldn't be used where the machines were headed, and they wouldn't
be missed. I cannot personally recover systems or anything of that
nature. I am sure however that my boss would be very reasonable if you
made an offer!)
PPS- we also have several sony trinitron touch screens. anyone know of
a use for these?