Detroit garage sale finds

From: Jason McBrien <jbmcb_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Mon Jul 14 08:13:00 2003

Once every few years the City of Detroit (as it were) has a huge "Garage
Sale" at Cobo Hall, where they have the auto show and other gigantic
conventions. This was the first in eight years so they had a lot of stuff
left over. I just found out about it the last second, and managed to make it
there with two hours before they closed. I picked up a Unisys Aquantas P166
"Thin client" which is pretty neat, and a box of Unisys/Burroughs disks with
some OS called "BTOS" but there was a ton of stuff I couldn't haul home as I
was limited to what I could carry. Among them were:

An IBM 5110 PC. Damn I wanted that thing...
Several big iron boxes from a Burroughs mainframe.
Lots of Xerox workstations
Some AT&T PC 6110, or whatever those freaky Unix PC's were.
An OLD Intergraph CAD workstation, the all in one jobber with two monitors
and a HUGE tablet housed in a monstorous box.
Literally MOUNTAINS of old PC's and workstations, most of them stripped
apart. I picked up a few Pentium Pro's to add to my chip collection out of a
Compaq box that looked like it had been hit by a bus.
 I'll try to post pics soon.

Good luck hunting!
Received on Mon Jul 14 2003 - 08:13:00 BST