Interesting finds, may be more....

From: Jon Healey <museum_at_techniche.com>
Date: Mon Nov 9 21:00:17 1998

Hi Gang,

(I'm pretty sure that the system's discribed below are 10 yrs old)

About a week ago I was out in Silicon Valley on business.

I used to live out there so whenever I go out I try and hit
all the surplus stores.

At one place (name follows), I found a couple of interesting
items. They had two models of old Panasonic computer.
One was a Panasonic (senior?) Executive. This looked
like a laptop on steroids. It was way too big for me to
get back with me unless I was willing to trade space
with some other stuff that I already had. They wanted
$30 for it. It might still be there.

The other item of interested was a (actually they had 2
on the shelf) beautiful Panasonic senior partner portable.
This gem was cherry. It had never been used. For those
of you not familiar with it, it has a built in thermal printer.
It's about the size of one of the old compaq portables but
the case has much smoother lines. It has a leather handle
on one end that allows you to carry it in a vertical orientation,
similar to the suitcases that the airline stewardess' use.

The one I got still had the flimsy plastic protective cover on
the leather handle. I also got a pristine roll of thermal
paper still in plastic wrap, original manuals and diskettes.

I wouldn't be metioning all of this except that as I was
purchasing this prize (20 bucks by the way) and trying
to find out if there was an original box available, the
clerk told me that they about 30 of these still in their
original boxes in the warehouse. They had just picked
up the whole lot somewhere.

So the chances are that they might still have a bunch
if anyone is interested.

I don't know if they will ship, but you can ask. If they don't then
at least the list members who live in the bay area can
check them out.

If anyone is interested here's the info:

Excess Solutions
430 E. Brokaw Road
San Jose, CA 95112
(408) 573-7045

For the local guys, this place is located right on Brokaw about
a block from the street that Fry's is on (towards 101) and on
the same side of Brokaw as Fry's.

Good luck.

Jon
Received on Mon Nov 09 1998 - 21:00:17 GMT