"William R. Walsh"
<newsgroups1@idontwantjunqueemail.walshcomptech.co m> hath wroth:
>And I realize that like anything, you can't save 'em all. I'm happy to have
>what I do and am always looking for more stuff to salvage.
For a while, the local dump was separating out the eWaste:
<http://802.11junk.com/jeffl/pics/e-waste/index.html>
It didn't last, but while it did, I was able to do a substantial
amount of (unauthorized) salvage.
There was a time, when IBM was into crushing their old hardware to
prevent it from being resold on the surplus market. Other companies
are still having problems competing with their own surplus hardware.
>> Hint: I collect old red LED HP calculators.
>
>I don't really have anything interesting to offer in trade, calculators
>aren't my specialty. (But, you know, one did wander in and needed to be
>saved: http://greyghost.dyndns.org/director2/).
Not a bad find. I've never heard of Eldorado Electrodata. Looks just
like one of these:
<http://www.vintagecalculators.com/AddmasterMerlin8K_1.jpg>
There were a fair number of strange products based on 4 function
calculator chips to appear in the early 1970's. I've found a few
oddities over the years, many of which look like "production
prototypes" and other oxymorons. I recall one that looked and weighed
like it was designed to survive a nuclear attack.
Incidentally, I just ordered an HP-35s (the commemorative version).
>The only thing I could
>really offer you is cash--some not-too-unreasonable amount--for the
>adapters.
Lets see what I find when I get back to my palatial office. I'm doing
the recovery thing after surgery 3 weeks ago and have no intention of
letting work get in the way of my loafing, errr... recovery. I should
pay a visit to my office within the next few daze and may attempt to
excavate the back of the closet where the M/C boards are probably
buried. This is when it was fairly clean:
<http://802.11junk.com/jeffl/pics/office/slides/office-panorama-2.html>
I would take a more up to date photo, but there's no empty place large
enough to place the tripod.
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