New subject: Everyone here should read this.. I thought I'd seen everything.

3 Dec 1999

-----Original Message-----
From: John Foust &lt;jfoust(a)threedee.com&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Friday, December 03, 1999 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: Everyone here should read this.. I thought I'd seen everything.

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Flay somebody?  We all knew these gold processing plants existed,
right?  I'd never heard a tale of the scope, though.  Even still,
it's clear this factory has volume.  There's not enough classic
computer collectors in the world to rescue all those machines.

We can wish there was a better mechanism for us to be able to
cherry-pick the make and model we dream of, but the fact is,
John B. just took a tour of a very large, very efficient,
and apparently profitable Dumpster. 
I just hope I can pull aside as many good minis from the '60s as I can. This
company does not stop cutting for anything. I had no idea so many IBM 30
series? systems get chopped up every week. The 1130 and the 8 bit front
panel computer did break my heart but it's just gold to them. Hopefully this
exercise wil yield some good parts and systems needed. He does get in quite
a bit of documentation with the systems and I will be taking as much of that
as I can. He has a *huge* DEC load coming in next Wednesday so I will be
there on Thursday. I have scrapped quite a few systems my self (and thought
that was bad) but seeing what his site does in one day made me sick.

Will keep everyone updated.

john

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- John