Re: Kemners Surplus - Real time walkthrough

Gone, I'm sorry to report! -- Anders Nelson +1 (517) 775-6129 www.erogear.com On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 10:05 AM Derek Newland wrote: > There are many pictures on their Facebook page > . Of particular > interest, is this one of an IBM

Re: Kemners Surplus - Real time walkthrough

There are many pictures on their Facebook page . Of particular interest, is this one of an IBM System/34 chassis: https://www.facebook.com/KemnerEnterprises/photos/a.1770653292985604/1768376576546609/ On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 1:52 PM Anders

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On Mon, 18 Feb 2019, TeoZ via cctalk wrote: I hated using a typewriter for school reports so when I purchased a C64 in the 80's I used that for reports. The only thing an electronic word processor had over a C64 was a very nice display (monochrome) compared to a TV for the C64. I forget if the

Re: Kemners Surplus - Real time walkthrough

Surplus - Real time walkthrough I can remember sitting in discussions about "killer apps" (they may have not been called that), but word processing, spreadsheet and the basic accounting (AP, AR, GL, Payroll and Inventory) suite were essentially the way you sold a business computer

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On 2/18/19 2:31 PM, TeoZ wrote: > I passed on mint complete word processors at a recyclers ages ago > because I had no use for them. I almost picked up a huge IBM typewriter > but changed my mind. > Everybody has limited space so we try not to fill it with things way > outside of our normal

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Degnan via cctalk Subject: Re: Kemners Surplus - Real time walkthrough On 2/18/19 8:10 AM, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: Of the items in https://photos.app.goo.gl/4Q8Jx7n36fmVczLN8 This photo depicts a Raytheon VT302, I did not see the keyboard in the photo, hoping it is not lost: https

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I'll add a postscript to my bit on Wupro disinterest. Exxon went into the WP business briefly by purchasing Vydec along with Qyx. Nobody seems to remember those either. Who collects old FAX machines, for example? FWIW, on eBay, there's an Exxon Verbex voice recognition box that seems to have

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On 2/18/19 8:10 AM, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: > Of the items in > > https://photos.app.goo.gl/4Q8Jx7n36fmVczLN8 > > This photo depicts a Raytheon VT302, I did not see the keyboard in the > photo, hoping it is not lost: > >

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doing > the video was not to interested in these things. > Dwight > > > From: cctalk on behalf of John Blake via > cctalk > Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2019 4:57 PM > To: cctalk@classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: Kemners Surplus - Real time walkthr

Re: Kemners Surplus - Real time walkthrough

PM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Kemners Surplus - Real time walkthrough Any idea what that blue Data General machine was? Some kind of terminal server?

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Of the items in https://photos.app.goo.gl/4Q8Jx7n36fmVczLN8 This photo depicts a Raytheon VT302, I did not see the keyboard in the photo, hoping it is not lost:

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> I see 4 Boxes of punch cards. All blank? > > https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipN-btB2yizsHBmabHb7xtHr_zUWZlS6QENHMHbb-beU6Jf4oNqEABuPoVWamYFUtg/photo/AF1QipP1COpYtcSYKVmiBAZskOJL5yujK8d2561Fepk?key=MmhXdXRtVkhoZkNGODBleGFNeGYza2xvV1BkbjV3 > > Too bad he wants $25 a box. 25 dollars for a

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Any idea what that blue Data General machine was?  Some kind of terminal server?

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At 01:51 PM 16/02/2019 -0500, you wrote: >Hi everyone, > >I heard Kemners Surplus in Pottstown, PA was going away so I decided to pay >them a visit. I'm taking pictures of as much vintage computing gear as I >can as we speak. I'll be here until they close today at 5pm EST, so if you >see something

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One final note: I didn't get pictures of these, but Kemners has probably 20-25 IBM external 5 1/4" floppy drives, about half of them are 360K and half are 1.2MB. Two of the 360K drives are NIB, wrapped in their original plastic. =] On Sat, Feb 16, 2019, 5:37 PM Anders Nelson Well, I got outta

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On 2/16/19 3:37 PM, Anders Nelson via cctalk wrote: Well, I got outta there with: - IBM 6360, $45 - IBM 4868-002, $20 - 10 pack DSDD soft sector 8" floppies, $10 - Life magazine from 1941 with pretty lady on the cover, $5 Okay. Did I get swindled or is this par for the course? From my

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No steals, but does seem quite reasonable. Well, depending on just HOW pretty the girl is. -- Will On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 5:37 PM Anders Nelson via cctalk wrote: > > Well, I got outta there with: > > - IBM 6360, $45 > - IBM 4868-002, $20 > - 10 pack DSDD soft sector 8" floppies, $10 > - Life

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Well, I got outta there with: - IBM 6360, $45 - IBM 4868-002, $20 - 10 pack DSDD soft sector 8" floppies, $10 - Life magazine from 1941 with pretty lady on the cover, $5 Did I get swindled or is this par for the course? On Sat, Feb 16, 2019, 4:56 PM Peter Cetinski > > On Feb 16, 2019, at 4:43

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> On Feb 16, 2019, at 4:43 PM, Anders Nelson via cctalk > wrote: > > They have until the end of June 2019. >> Just my $0.02. When I was there last year they said the same thing. And prices were eBay level. If prices aren’t coming down a lot I suspect they may get their lease

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They have until the end of June 2019. On Sat, Feb 16, 2019, 4:24 PM William Donzelli Also, can you find out when they plan to close their doors and/or call > the scrapper? A timetable? > > Thank you for your effort so far. > > -- > Will > > On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 4:20 PM Anders Nelson via

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Also, can you find out when they plan to close their doors and/or call the scrapper? A timetable? Thank you for your effort so far. -- Will On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 4:20 PM Anders Nelson via cctalk wrote: > > More photos posted to the album with some NIB DEC boards, look like a > motherboard

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More photos posted to the album with some NIB DEC boards, look like a motherboard and CRT board, two of each. On Sat, Feb 16, 2019, 1:51 PM Anders Nelson Hi everyone, > > I heard Kemners Surplus in Pottstown, PA was going away so I decided to > pay them a visit. I'm taking pictures of as much

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On 2/16/19 1:53 PM, Anders Nelson wrote: They have probably 25 boxes of 10, 8" DSDD floppies each that are still in their sealed packaging if that's of interest! I'm personally not interested. But I've seen a lot of chatter recently about disks that IBM used in older equipment like the 3174

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They have probably 25 boxes of 10, 8" DSDD floppies each that are still in their sealed packaging if that's of interest! On Sat, Feb 16, 2019, 2:29 PM Grant Taylor via cctalk On 2/16/19 12:16 PM, Anders Nelson via cctalk wrote: > > The last there was proactive about saying prices are negotiable,

RE: Kemners Surplus - Real time walkthrough

] On Behalf Of Anders Nelson via cctalk Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2019 12:52 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Kemners Surplus - Real time walkthrough Hi everyone, I heard Kemners Surplus in Pottstown, PA was going away so I decided to pay them a visit. I'm taking

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On 2/16/19 12:16 PM, Anders Nelson via cctalk wrote: The last there was proactive about saying prices are negotiable, and you could expect "up to 50%" off. Hum. I feel like that's not sufficient to peak my interest in some of the things. I'm particularly interested in the IBM PS/2 stuff, but

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The last there was proactive about saying prices are negotiable, and you could expect "up to 50%" off. I'm not about to pay up to $1K for one of those corroded disk packs, so... On Sat, Feb 16, 2019, 2:11 PM William Donzelli Probably the biggest question everyone has is if the prices are >

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I cross posted this / what you're doing to Usenet (PS/2 people) and tweeted about it. On 2/16/19 11:51 AM, Anders Nelson via cctalk wrote: Hi everyone, I heard Kemners Surplus in Pottstown, PA was going away so I decided to pay them a visit. I'm taking pictures of as much vintage computing

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Probably the biggest question everyone has is if the prices are reasonable for a place about to go under. -- Will On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 1:52 PM Anders Nelson via cctalk wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I heard Kemners Surplus in Pottstown, PA was going away so I decided to pay > them a visit. I'm

Kemners Surplus - Real time walkthrough

Hi everyone, I heard Kemners Surplus in Pottstown, PA was going away so I decided to pay them a visit. I'm taking pictures of as much vintage computing gear as I can as we speak. I'll be here until they close today at 5pm EST, so if you see something you like feel free to give them a call and