Chicago Area Sites

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Thu Apr 12 18:33:41 2001

There's plenty of college excess I'm sure. Just downtown you have
Northwestern, UICC, Loop, etc. They usually have a surplus sale every so
often or channels to find out where it all goes. The City of Chicago itself
is full of more waste than many other governments as when ever anyone's
relative has something to sell, the one in office helps the contract along
and the old goes to charity, dumps, scrappers, open sales by the pallet,
etc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Jason McBrien
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 12:58 PM
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Chicago Area Sites
>
>
> 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
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> >
Received on Thu Apr 12 2001 - 18:33:41 BST