Hi Brian. I've dealt with Fox Electronics on several occasions. They are primarily a chip recycler but also recycle other computer components such as hard drives and memory. I know Brad Fox (co-owner) and he's one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet. I sold him several batches of scrap circuit boards from my electronics recycling business over the past few years, plus other miscellaneous e-waste. One time I was there and he had a Terminator 2 arcade game that he gave me (which I recently traded for a Super Off-Road :) They used to be in San Jose but they moved their facility to Hayward. I don't know that they'd necessarily have anything in the way of retrocomputers, but it doesn't hurt to call and ask. There are so many electroncis recyclers now, especially in the Bay Area but also all over California, that most classic stuff that's still out there probably goes to scrap. My business occasionally gets some nice old iron, but definitely the bulk of it (99+%) is modern computer crap. Hitting these guys up to come out and look at their stuff will be a mixed bag. The smaller guys will, most of which are little one or two man shops, will probably welcome you, but the bigger operations probably won't unless you approach them more formally and explain your motives. Most of them are in it to convert electronics to scrap for pennies by the pound, and wouldn't know how to identify a vintage IBM from a modern one. However, if you give them model numbers, photos, etc. and specify a price over scrap, most of them would probably jump at the chance to make more money by selling the thing to you whole rather than put the labor into tearing it down to sell as scrap. With commodity prices at their current lows, it wouldn't take much to beat scrap values, with the exception being computers with boards that have heavy gold plating. Circuit boards are currently fetching around maybe $1.70-$2.00/pound, so even old HP gear can be had for very reasonable prices if you make an offer too good to refuse. Let's say a rack of HP 1000 equipment weights 500 pounds, perhaps 75 of which is circuit boards. Offer them $200 for it and they'll probably ask you if they can load it for you. Good hunting. -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]