Macs, IBM systems, roms, etc etc...

From: John R. Keys Jr. <jrkeys_at_concentric.net>
Date: Wed Aug 19 21:58:35 1998

I'm right here in the Twincities also and would like to purchase some of
the machines. Here's my offer to those on the list that want some of these
items in one's and two's e-mail your list and the price you want to pay for
each item and I will make them a offer for all of it. You have only pay me
the shipping cost plus the item cost. If I get it all cheap enough them I
will divide the number of units into the price I pay and charge the lower
price per unit. Say I get 100 items at $300 that means the cost per item
would be $3. I do not need it all I also just want one of each type of unit
for my collection that I do not already have. Let me know as soon as
possible before it's all gone. Thanks Eric for the tip and I will get back
to my Friday with some type of offer based me being able maybe see some of
these units.
At 09:09 PM 8/19/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Ok, after a few more days of scoping things out, here's the deal: I
>started working for GE Capital, at Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Minnesota.
>They are disposing of alot of the mac systems, and I figured that I
>would be able to pull the ROM's out of the old ones that I knew were
>never going to be used again, ever. (Just so you know, I would probably
>lose my job due to that but it's a shame to let such things go to waste.
>If someone reading this is from my new employers, I haven't done
>anything!!!!!)
>
> Anyway, one of my bosses, the asset manager, is actively trying to
>dispose of pallets of stuff. So if someone out there can actually buy
>quite a bit, that might be nice... apparently last year he made 300
>bucks selling all systems to scrap dealers that melted it all for the
>metal content. bummer.)
>
> We have lots of old IBM mainframe systems, Quads, CRTs, etc etc. also,
>a good lot of those macs were all used by the Graphic Design dept; so
>they are chock full of cool stuff (tons of ram, souped up video cards,
>yadda yadda.) lots of hard drives, all have token ring cards. (I
>reiterate: LOTS of token ring cards. I'm swimming in them.) I currently
>have a large pallet of mac 14/15 inch monitors; a pallet of IIsi, IIci,
>IIcx's; Quadra 700s, Quadra 950 servers(awesome machines), PowerPC
>7100/66, 7100/80's. also other random ones. also, *several* pallets of
>Duo Dock 230's and 280's. tons of NEC versa V/50's and 4000c's. quite a
>few 21 inch mac color monitors (definitely not for sale, unless you made
>an attractive offer to my boss!)
>
> alot of this stuff is earmarked for employee sales, but alot of it is
>also headed for disposal. If anyone is truly interested, I will print
>out and give serious inquiries to my boss. emailing the head of a large
>national corporation won't do much, but I can give your requests to the
>right person.
>
> in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
>
>-Eric
>
> (PS. - I only offered to grab roms or small chip components because
>they wouldn't be used where the machines were headed, and they wouldn't
>be missed. I cannot personally recover systems or anything of that
>nature. I am sure however that my boss would be very reasonable if you
>made an offer!)
>
> PPS- we also have several sony trinitron touch screens. anyone know of
>a use for these?
>
>
Received on Wed Aug 19 1998 - 21:58:35 BST