For anyone in the Portland area I just met a most interesting Computer
Recycler. Unlike the standard Horror stories I hear, he's working out of
an apartment complex he apparently runs. He's got a ton of stuff
squirreled away, and would rather sell to people that will reuse it, but if
that doesn't work out, or if he doesn't think he can resell it, it gets
recycled.
Stuff I saw:
IBM System III Model 50
A very interesting little Tek terminal on it's own stand
A lot of Apollo Domain
A lot of HP stuff including an interesting rack mounted system with,
a 9-track drive.
Sun stuff (I've got a friend that bought a complete Sparc 10 system
from
him)
More PC stuff than you can shake a stick a
Some NeXT stuff (which I got most or all of)
Stuff I got:
Some tape drives, mostly DAT and an old 8mm (think I cleaned him
out of
DAT
Toshba CD-ROM (My Alpha loves it, and the DAT I hooked up)
NeXT B&W Turbo slab system/32Mb RAM/1Gb HD/keyboard/mouse/monitor
haven't tried it yet, so no idea how it works. Also no
idea if
it has an OS on it
NeXT MO drive
I let him know that there are people looking for a lot of the stuff he
didn't seem to think anyone would want. A good example being Amiga and
Atari systems. I've also asked him to let me know when any DEC stuff shows
up.
Zane
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Received on Sun Sep 13 1998 - 13:00:40 BST