26 Feb
2003
26 Feb
'03
11:49 p.m.
Hello, all:
I have a business trip out to the Bay Area next week (and then on to
Los Angeles). I will probably have a few hours to kill up in the Bay Area.
What are your recommentations for places to visit, including places for
surplus equipment?
Thanks.
Rich
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Richard A. Cini, Jr.
First Vice President
Congress Financial Corporation
1133 Avenue of the Americas
30th Floor
New York, NY 10036
(212) 545-4402
(212) 840-6259 (facsimile)
27 Feb
27 Feb
12:30 a.m.
Is Weird Stuff Warehouse still out in San Jose? I always loved that
place when I went out to San Jose(not far from the Bay Area).
Rob
On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 08:45 AM, Cini, Richard wrote:
Hello, all:
I have a business trip out to the Bay Area next week (and then on to
Los Angeles). I will probably have a few hours to kill up in the Bay
Area.
What are your recommentations for places to visit, including places for
surplus equipment?
Thanks.
Rich
==========================
Richard A. Cini, Jr.
First Vice President
Congress Financial Corporation
1133 Avenue of the Americas
30th Floor
New York, NY 10036
(212) 545-4402
(212) 840-6259 (facsimile)
12:59 a.m.
Good morning,
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On 27-Feb-03 at 09:26 Robert Borsuk wrote:
Is Weird Stuff Warehouse still out in San Jose? I
always loved that
place when I went out to San Jose(not far from the Bay Area).
They moved over to Caribbean Drive (see my web site mentioned in a different post), but
yes, they're still there. They have a huge as-is area that's always fun to dig
through.
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Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy,
Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com
ARS KC7GR (Formerly WD6EOS) since 12-77 -- kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com
"I'll get a life when someone demonstrates that it would be superior
to what I have now..." (Taki Kogoma, aka Gym Z. Quirk)
noon
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Bruce Lane wrote:
Yeah, but last time I was there (my office is
off of Elko Dr, which
is off Lawrence Expwy, the "other side" of Caribbean) they were very
much closed.
--fred
Is Weird Stuff
Warehouse still out in San Jose? I always loved that
place when I went out to San Jose(not far from the Bay Area).
They moved over to Caribbean Drive 
12:15 p.m.
Bruce Lane wrote about Weird Stuff Warehouse:
> They moved over to Caribbean Drive
Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
Yeah, but last time I was there (my office is off of
Elko Dr, which is
off Lawrence Expwy, the "other side" of Caribbean) they were very much
closed.
I bought some only slightly weird stuff from them less than three weeks
ago.
3:27 p.m.
New subject: Weirdstuff Warehouse (WAS:Re: Classic SF Bay Area places to visit)
http://www.weirdstuff.com/sunnyvale/index.htm
I go to weirdstuff at least once a week.. sometimes 2 or 3 just to unwind.
"The story of my death has been greatly exaggerated"
Anyone coming to the south bay SHOULD visit weirdstuff :)
NOTE: I'm NOT an employee, and this is NOT an advert - this is merely the
definitive answer to the "is weirdstuff even still around?" question.
3:43 p.m.
New subject: Weirdstuff Warehouse (WAS:Re: Classic SF Bay Area places to visit)
On Thursday, February 27, 2003, Live Wire wrote:
Where's all their classic stuff? All I see is 5-year-old PC/Mac stuff.
--
Jeffrey Sharp
6:54 p.m.
New subject: Weirdstuff Warehouse (WAS:Re: Classic SF Bay Area places to visit)
Where's all their classic stuff? All I see is
5-year-old PC/Mac stuff.
In the "As-is" room, of course. But if you expect to see a big pile
<favorite old computer>, of course you'll be disappointed, since those
only show up occasionally.
They used to put stickers on some items saying "Guaranteed not to work".
I bought an Atari 800 with such a sticker once, wanting it just as
a source of spare parts. I discovered that it worked just fine, so I
went back and complained. They were baffled. If I'd been in their
position, I would have told the customer "fine, bring it back and we'll
break it for you."
The only time I went to their old Milpitas location, I passed on several
things thinking that they were too expensive, such as an IBM 5100 for
which they wanted the princely sum of $200. D'oh!
1 Mar
1 Mar
11:25 a.m.
New subject: Weirdstuff Warehouse (WAS:Re: Classic SF Bay Area places to visit)
On Friday, February 28, 2003, Eric Smith wrote:
Yeah, but IIRC they used to have a more detailed web site built around that,
where you could "dig dig dig dig". It's a shame that that isn't around
anymore.
--
Jeffrey Sharp
Where's
all their classic stuff? All I see is 5-year-old PC/Mac stuff.
In the "As-is" room, of course. 
11:39 a.m.
New subject: Weirdstuff Warehouse (WAS:Re: Classic SF Bay Area places to visit)
Do they have an inventory sheet?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey Sharp" <jss(a)subatomix.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: Weirdstuff Warehouse (WAS:Re: Classic SF Bay Area places to
visit)
On Friday, February 28, 2003, Eric Smith wrote:
Yeah, but IIRC they used to have a more detailed web site built around
that,
Where's all their classic stuff? All I see is 5-year-old PC/Mac stuff.
In the "As-is" room, of course. where you could "dig dig dig dig". It's
a shame that that isn't around
anymore.
--
Jeffrey Sharp
2 Mar
2 Mar
3:51 a.m.
New subject: Weirdstuff Warehouse (WAS:Re: Classic SF Bay Area places to visit)
Do they have an inventory sheet?
I just went there yesterday and bought a few items. Almost everything I
bought had its price determined in real time, shall we say. It strikes me
that, if inventory for the As-Is Room is done at all (which I doubt), it's
done by biological processes on a per-employee basis.
Patrick
6:19 a.m.
New subject: Weirdstuff Warehouse (WAS:Re: Classic SF Bay Area places to visit)
Were their prices reasonable?
I have gone to equipment places in Ohio and some of the prices were nuts.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Rigney" <patrick(a)evocative.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 12:47 PM
Subject: RE: Weirdstuff Warehouse (WAS:Re: Classic SF Bay Area places to
visit)
Do they have
an inventory sheet?
I just went there yesterday and bought a few items. Almost everything I
bought had its price determined in real time, shall we say. It strikes me
that, if inventory for the As-Is Room is done at all (which I doubt), it's
done by biological processes on a per-employee basis.
Patrick 
28 Feb
28 Feb
4:06 a.m.
New subject: Weirdstuff Warehouse (WAS:Re: Classic SF Bay Area places to visit)
Where's all their classic stuff?
All I see is 5-year-old PC/Mac stuff.
See the WSW As-Is page for three pictures, period, of classics.
We oughta pay someone in Silicon Valley a dollar a month
subscription to go in there and put his own pictures of it on a
webpage (or at least I would).
Imagine... getting Paid to go to WSW.
John A.
4:14 p.m.
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Bruce Lane wrote:
Yeah, but last time I was there (my office is
off of Elko Dr, which
is off Lawrence Expwy, the "other side" of Caribbean) they were very
much closed.
WeirdStuff is most assuredly still in business.
--
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org
* Old computing resources for business and academia at www.VintageTech.com *
Is Weird
Stuff Warehouse still out in San Jose? I always loved that
place when I went out to San Jose(not far from the Bay Area).
They moved over to Caribbean Drive
27 Feb
27 Feb
12:35 a.m.
Hi, Rich,
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On 27-Feb-03 at 08:45 Cini, Richard wrote:
Hello, all:
I have a business trip out to the Bay Area next week (and then on to
Los Angeles). I will probably have a few hours to kill up in the Bay Area.
What are your recommentations for places to visit, including places for
surplus equipment?
See http://www.bluefeathertech.com/technoid/calswap.html
Enjoy!
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy,
Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com
ARS KC7GR (Formerly WD6EOS) since 12-77 -- kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com
"I'll get a life when someone demonstrates that it would be superior
to what I have now..." (Taki Kogoma, aka Gym Z. Quirk)
3:20 p.m.
Computer History Museum Visible Storage is open for
tours the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of the month, contact
them via www.computerhistory.org before hand. Second
Saturday of the month is the regular work party. I
think we may be working in the Collection area - not
sure. Again contact thru web page for details and to
sign up.
Others will cover surplus places. Here's a list of
places in the Valley were former classic computer
glory and breakthroughs were made:
CDC disk drives were once designed and built at a
facility that occupied the vacant field across from
Applied Materials HQ on Arques in Sunnyvale.
Early HP computers (2100 series, calculators, HP1000,
3000, PA-RISC) were designed and manufactured at the
facility at Wolfe and Pruneridge in Cupertino. HP
still does a significant portion of system (HP9000)
work there.
Original HP garage is at 367 Addison Ave in Palo Alto.
IBM did all the design and prototype work for the ACS
at a facility on Sand Hill Road near 280 in Menlo
Park. See http://www.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs.html.
Site occupied by VC firms.
Former CDC facility in Sunnyvale were (at least)
networking and some OS work was done. See
http://pages.sbcglobal.net/couperusj/index.html. I
interviewed there for a network R&D position in the
late 70s. Don;t know if the building still exists, CDC
doesn't.
99 Notre Dame Avenue is the location where IBM
invented the disk drive 50 years ago. See
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/sst/storage/hdi/abshistory.shtml.
Facility no longer exists.
IBM Palo Alto Science Center used to be across the
street (approximately) from HP HQ on Page Mill Road.
IBM 5100 was developed there along with other
mainframe technology.
Of course Xerox PARC is down the street off of Central
Expressway in Palo Alto.
IBM Almaden Labs were a LOT of computing was invented.
Intel Museum might be of interest, but I haven't been
myself.
Enjoy!
Lee Courtney
--- "Cini, Richard" <RCini(a)congressfinancial.com>
wrote:
Hello, all:
I have a business trip out to the Bay Area next
week (and then on to
Los Angeles). I will probably have a few hours to
kill up in the Bay Area.
What are your recommentations for places to visit,
including places for
surplus equipment?
Thanks.
Rich
==========================
Richard A. Cini, Jr.
First Vice President
Congress Financial Corporation
1133 Avenue of the Americas
30th Floor
New York, NY 10036
(212) 545-4402
(212) 840-6259 (facsimile)
6:44 p.m.
Lee writes about the Computer History Museum:
Second Saturday of the month is the regular work
party.
Is there any particular reason why that has to be on
the second saturday, vs. one of the other saturdays?
I can't go that saturday because too many other events
are scheduled for the second saturday of each month, but
I don't have a single event scheduled for the other
saturdays.
Sigh.
28 Feb
28 Feb
5:18 a.m.
Yes - I too would like to see the V-day moved so that
it does not conflict with Foothill and DCL, although
most Foothill action is over by the time V-day starts.
I'll put this on the agenda for the next Volunteer
Steering Committee. I don't think this will happen
until we start doing tours in the new building in the
end of Q2 timeframe. At that time I think we could
rearrange Saturday tours and V-day.
Thanks,
Lee Courtney
--- Eric Smith <eric(a)brouhaha.com> wrote:
Lee writes about the Computer History Museum:
Second Saturday of the month is the regular work
party.
Is there any particular reason why that has to be on
the second saturday, vs. one of the other saturdays?
I can't go that saturday because too many other
events
are scheduled for the second saturday of each month,
but
I don't have a single event scheduled for the other
saturdays.
Sigh.
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