Cromemcos at Re-PC

From: Ernest <ernestls_at_attbi.com>
Date: Fri Nov 15 00:13:01 2002

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org]On
> Behalf Of Geoff Reed
> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 4:39 PM
> To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: RE: Cromemcos at Re-PC
>
>
> At 11:14 AM 11/11/02 -0800, you wrote:
> >I sent an email inquiring after them and was told that they do not
> >resell their vintage systems. They have a museum of sorts that I was
> >invited to visit should I ever be in the area.
> >
> >Erik S. Klein
> >www.vintage-computer.com
>
> IF it ended up in their museum, most of the time it either ends
> up in as-is
> or goes right in the dumpster (if they don't realize what it is).....

There are two REPC stores. The one downtown does have a small museum however
most of their really interesting stuff, like those Cromemco's is sent to the
other REPC out near SeaTac. The SeaTac store, however, does not have a
display museum. They have been promising to set one up for years but they
still hadn't as of a few months ago when I was out there. I think that they
just pile the old stuff up in the back of their warehouse, where it just
collectes dust. I am occasionally allowed into the back room of the Seattle
store, to poke around at my leisure, and I have seen plastic wrapped pallets
of great old computers that are being sent to the SeaTac store but I've
never seen any of those old computers at the other store, on display or
otherwise.

I did ask about the Cromemco's at the Seattle store, and the guys who would
be most likely to have seen them said they didn't know anything about
them -in fact, they would have been excited if they HAD seen them and would
have mentioned it to me. That's all that I was able to find out about it.

E.
Received on Fri Nov 15 2002 - 00:13:01 GMT