9 Feb
2010
9 Feb
'10
6:59 p.m.
On Feb 9, 2010, at 1:49 PM, Teo Zenios wrote:
Horribly sad to see. I'm in the thick of it, my house is
currently the only one on my street that isn't bank-owned, and never
heard about ANY collectibles needing homes. Where did you see this
stuff?
Where?!!
But, admittedly I'm talking about stuff a good bit older than
that, like PDP-11s, Calcomp 565s, and ASR-33s.
I'd love to have an Amiga again. My boss is an Amiga nut; he
promised to give me a nice complete A1000 setup when he has some
time to put it all together and make it perfect. I'm looking
forward to adopting it.
A year or so ago there was all kinds of cheap/free stuff from
people losing their homes and not having anywhere to take their
collections (in FL but happens all over now). Sad to see actually. Yea, anything pre 1980's seems to be rare anywhere
these days.
Not in .EU, apparently.
Even newer stuff is rare in some areas. I tripped over
a DEC
MicroVAX last week at a recycler, which is rare in my area. If you
want older stuff you need to be in larger cities where the stuff
was purchased new and used. I bet anything ever made can be found
in the NYC area, of course there are millions of other would be
collectors looking there too.
I hope you rescued that MicroVAX.
There are some biggish cities around here, though nothing like NYC
of course. Tampa is nontrivial. Zero classic hardware there
though. Lots of cool stuff (lots of modern IBM mainframes in Tampa)
but nothing old.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL