Time to change the Subject Line! Re: E-bay complaints

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Joe R. wrote:

>    BTW this brings up an important point. I've gone out with a lot of
> different computer hunters and I was shocked to find out that most of you
> fail to look through the baskets of cables and old boards. I ALWAYS find

I'm not surprised.  It's a lot of work, and most people are lazy.  The
random crap bins are where I find some of my best stuff.

> lots of goodies in them! For example, I went with Gary Hildebrand to
> computer recycling place in Topeka Kansas and he had just been asking me
> for some 1Mb ICs for the Commodore Amiga computers. When we got the the
> recycler's we looked through all the computers (I found a black B&H Apple),
> then I went and looked through their board scrap and found not just the ICs
> that he wanted but they were also on original Amiga boards! Gary was
> shocked! He said that he'd been to this same place many times before but
> never thought to look in the board scrap! Besides computer cables, cable
> scrap almost always includes hings like logic analyzer pods and
> oscilloscope probes that make good trading material.

One of these days I'll find that Apple 1 board in the scrap boards bin :)

> strict!  The key to sucessful computer hunting is to find the companies
> that buy or are given old electronics for recycling (not the get-rich-quick

Or you can start your own...

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