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[Ethan Dicks]

On 7/15/05, Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, John Allain wrote:
> 
> > re: http://www.retrobox.com/
> > > Hey I'm in Columbus too, that makes 3 of us.

:-)

> > Pick the friendliest * guy and go on down and make friends.
> > However they might be just starting up and not everybody
> > settled in yet, just a possibility to look for.
> 
> The story said they've been around since 1997. 

1997?!?  I'm really surprised to not have heard of them before now.  I
checked on their website... I've been by their place dozens if not
hundreds of times in the past 7 years (not that I'd expect a large
sign saying "Turn Left for Old Computers".

I'd love to hear what people find, but, again, from their web pages,
it looked like they a) don't know much about non-PC equipment (look at
the Sun systems for sale), and b) think the stuff's made of solid
gold.

-ethan


ey sound very well
> established and have what sounds like a substantial operation (80
> employees).  Expect a very corporate warehouse type setting.  You'll
> probably want to befriend the operations manager and let him/her know
> you're interested in rescuing mainframes and stuff that come through.
> Unless they're dicks they'll probably be really receptive.  The founder of
> the company sounded like a really nice guy and would probably be happy to
> help save history.
> 
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