Chicago Area Sites

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Thu Apr 12 10:19:28 2001

The bad thing is with all that industry and potential for lots of excess,
the scrappers get a lot of it direct and strip it for various reclaimables.


Which brings up a though for people further south in IL...There is a
scrapper in Urbana IL that does much the same and I've seen PDP's, IBM 6262
printers, Univac remotes and all sorts of heavy items go through there back
when I lived there up until 93. I used to go parts searching for my truck
and didn't really have the room or need for classics then but anyone that is
in the area of C-U and want to explore a possible venue should go to I-74 at
Lincoln and go north on Lincoln just across the road from the UPS center. I
forget the name of the yard but they charge by the pound rather than by what
they think they can get for it. If you check into what they have in the big
building up front you migth find interesting stuff on a regular basis.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Jason McBrien
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 9:20 AM
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Chicago Area Sites
>
>
> There's American Science and Surplus which is out on the outskirts of
> Chicago on Milwaukee(sp?), they also have a few branches scattered around
> the suburbs. I'm vacationing in Chicago for a few days at the end of the
> month and would like to know any other places that have anything as well.
> You'd think there'd be tons of surplus computer places around that area,
> what with Argonne, FermiLab, Newark Electronics, and Motorola all living
> near.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Brown" <bbrown_at_harper.cc.il.us>
> To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 9:20 AM
> Subject: Chicago Area Sites
>
>
> > I have still never seen anyone on the list post any info on
> > good places in the Chicago area to find computer goodies....
> >
> > Either there aren't many people on the list familier with this area, or
> > there aren't any good places in this area (hard to believe due to the
> > population), or the people who know are keeping it to themselves...
> >
> > I've lived here all my life and I still don't know if a good surplus
> > computer store around here...anyone with any ideas?
> >
> > thanks.
> >
> > -Bob
> >
> >
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