[kwlug-disc] Old / Vintage components

[Jason Eckert]

>From what I’ve heard, there are no plans on resurrecting Syd’s PC Museum at all (in Canada).
Syd’s passing was definitely a sad story – he was an avid member of both the vintage computer and vintage gaming/arcade scene.

From: Charles M
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2019 4:04 PM
To: KWLUG discussion
Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Old / Vintage components

Syd’s passing was a shock to a lot of people. There was some talk about trying to revive it, but I’m not sure if that fell apart or is just on hold. 

On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 12:13 PM Colin Mackay <zixiekat at gmail.com> wrote:
The museum is closed indefinitely.   The curator passed away last year and I think its future is up in the air right now.

I was hoping they'd have one of there yard sales,  ut it looks like I missed it.   It was in May.

On Mon., Jul. 22, 2019, 12:07 p.m. Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc, <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

We rarely get them in. This is the second or third request I have
heard of in the past month for this old stuff. If we do get stuff like
this in maybe we can hold it aside and post to the list. 

In terms of old stuff, we do have some 5.25" floppies (blank), some
3.5" floppies, and maybe some ancient 30 pin RAM kicking around. We
also have AT keyboards for some reason.

It occurs to me that you might check in with the computer museum guys.
They might get extra contributions that are sufficiently common they
don't need them for their collection, but sufficiently old that
somebody thought they belonged in a museum.

https://pcmuseum.ca/donations.asp

- Paul


On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 11:55:41AM -0400, Colin Mackay wrote:
> I have not!  But I fear a lot of what they get is more modern than I am
> looking for.  Perhaps one of them could chime in if they ever see any old
> 80's or 90's systems come in... and if they make them available at all.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 11:32 AM CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Not to speak out of turn here, but have you talked to our laptop recycling
> > experts Paul and Charles?
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 at 11:29, Colin Mackay <zixiekat at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Me too.  I was crying while typing.
> >>
> >> It always seems to be that when I have the means to move ahead on
> >> something like this, I've missed the boat on something. ;)
> >>
> >> But I will contact some local e-waste folk!
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 11:02 AM Ron Singh <ronsingh149 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Man, questions like these make me want to cry  -- just last year in May,
> >>> my local IT joint had a massive purge of older parts, ranging from 486 to
> >>> PIII and the associated ISA-bussed stuff, all e-wasted. Remarkable how many
> >>> brand-new ATI VLB video cards were tossed, a project that went bad.
> >>>
> >>> I think you would have the best of luck with a visit to a smaller
> >>> e-waster, where you tell them that you will tear apart some older PCs and
> >>> take what you want and they get some free labour. I would imagine most
> >>> e-waster will frown on an outside at their premises from a liability
> >>> standpoint, but mebbe not.
> >>>
> >>> I think it worth a try.
> >>>
> >>> I am personally looking for an ASUS ISA-486 mobo as it was best-of-breed
> >>> back in the day as I have a real nice Intel 486dx4-100 CPU in hand along
> >>> with the RAM/PSU/Video. Shockingly, we found a new DEC Alpha mobo that will
> >>> run Win NT and likely some Debian cut. That mobo was kept:-)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> Ron Singh
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 9:20 PM Colin Mackay <zixiekat at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Greetings,
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm looking to revive an old 386 I once had.  I've found an identical
> >>>> model on ebay and it's on it's way, but it got me wondering if there was
> >>>> anything in the K/W (or even Toronto) area where older computer parts may
> >>>> still be available?
> >>>>
> >>>> I've done a number of google searches, but most of the companies out
> >>>> there sell more recent systems (2010+).  I'm hoping for late 80's early
> >>>> 90's.
> >>>>
> >>>> If anyone knows, please let me know!
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks.
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