Eli Heffrons on Hampshire Street, Cambridge,MA, USA

From: evan <evan947_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sat Jul 26 21:27:00 2003

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--- Steve Jones <classiccmp_at_crash.com> wrote:
> Bob Shannon wrote:
> .
> > I've owned two, and serviced a great many back in
> the Eli Heffron days.
>
> Yow! I drive by the site every now and again and
> shed a tear for
> what was once a wonderful place to lose an
> afternoon. Back around
> '89-91 I worked at MIT and Eli's was a prime source
> of parts for
> labs with tight hardware budgets to repair/upgrade
> their ailing
> MicroVAX II's and such.
>
> I remember wandering the shelves and seeing RX0n
> drive cabinets,
> whole pdp-11/44's, and other goodies that I didn't
> do anything
> about. What I did do was buy an SGI Iris 3130 with
> monitor -- nobody
> seemed to know what it was, but I got it to boot. I
> believe I paid
> $2k for that thing with 20" color monitor, and
> hauled it home in a
> friend's car.
>
> Fooled around with that for a couple months but
> something in the
> monitor went, probably a flyback. I decided by that
> time that I
> needed a Sun for a project I wanted to do when I
> returned to college
> (anybody remember UCB's Sprite?), so I sold the
> thing with a dead
> monitor for the same price. Who knows, maybe I could
> have gotten
> more, the thing was loaded with bitplane and
> Geometry Engine
> boards. But the weird System III derivative OS
> really put me off at
> the time.
>
> Manys the time I've wished I could go back in time
> and raid those
> shelves, or browse through the tables of electronics
> parts...
>
> --Steve.
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