Chicago Area Sites

From: Jason McBrien <jbmcb_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Thu Apr 12 12:58:28 2001

Must be UIUC stuff, the NCSA is HQ'd around there somewhere.. Mmmm.. vintage
supercomputers....

----- Original Message -----
From: "Russ Blakeman" <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 11:19 AM
Subject: RE: Chicago Area Sites


> 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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