6 May
1998
6 May
'98
11:09 a.m.
Bill Richman wrote:
I was at the scrap yard yesterday, picking up some aluminum blocks to
play with on my new CNC milling machine, and decided to take a stroll
out where they occasionally dump old mainframe parts.
Well I can't quite match this tale of finding core memory at a junkyard,
but I did stop by a place exactly like you described a few weeks ago and
found 3 working CompuPro System 8/16s, 2 working Televideo 925s, several
external 8" drive boxes (4 FD and 2 HD) and assorted S-100 boards (256K
RAM, dual-processor, lots of neato things). Everything just strewn
about and comingling with car wreckage over a quarter of an acre
area... By the pound, 60 bucks. Don't just drive past those
places--stop in and say, "Hiya!"
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