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

From: Francois <fauradon_at_pclink.com>
Date: Thu Aug 20 06:22:37 1998

Hi John,
I would love to join you in that effort. I am also interested in acquiring
on of each unit. Maybe we can poll our resources and make a few people happy
in the process.
Anyway, Eric if you can find out the actual cost per palette that would be a
great indicator of the fund needed.
Thank you for flagging this one.
Francois
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-----Original Message-----
From: John R. Keys Jr. <jrkeys_at_concentric.net>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Wednesday, August 19, 1998 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: Macs, IBM systems, roms, etc etc...


>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?
>>
>>
>
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