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    Cleaning Out an Old Computer Shop

    Picked up a call this morning....A guy about an hour away wanted to clean out a building that he used to run a computer shop in. Sweet. He said that he was willing to just give it all to us because it was no longer worth anything to him. Come to find out he is a big wig with the post office so money was obviously not an issue with him.



    Well when we got inside the shop we found out why he said they were no longer worth anything to him. There was not one single tower that was newer than a Pentium 1.

    We filled the truck and the trailer with just towers for the first load of many that are going to come out of this place. Several of the towers are even pre-processor machines and we have found about 10 of the old 8086 machines.

    We even pulled about a dozen commodore 64 machines out. We still have half as many towers to pull out and then we move on to the printers and monitors and other misc stuff that he has laying around. Certainly been a great week for us. After the last load and this one I am still waiting for someone to come along and kick me square in the marbles

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    Awesome find im jelous

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    Fantastic find! Good fer u!

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    ComputerScrapper.....you need to go to the nearest sporting goods store and buy their best sports cup and start wearing it NOW !!!

    lol.....congrats....enjoy it !!

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    Nice one!

    Wonder if you will sell the 8086, commodores etc on flea bay? probably more value than straight scrap.

    Well done!! Just find yourself a truck and trailer load of Pentium Pro machines, and it will be a happy day indeed!!!!!





    P.S any chance of a pic or two????
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    Check always to sell on eBay first, before going to the yard.
    I saw that even the comodore 64 sometimes is requested and prices are 25-30 a piece...

    EnjoY

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    ..also, did this result from an add you placed?? Thanks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Torker Man View Post
    ..also, did this result from an add you placed?? Thanks.
    Actually this one came from our website.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ron_toronto View Post
    Check always to sell on eBay first, before going to the yard.
    I saw that even the comodore 64 sometimes is requested and prices are 25-30 a piece...

    EnjoY
    We usually check eBay for things but we try to avoid selling too much on there. There seem to be so many problems on there anymore. But if something is highly valuable we still give it a shot.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Torker Man View Post
    Nice one!

    Wonder if you will sell the 8086, commodores etc on flea bay? probably more value than straight scrap.

    Well done!! Just find yourself a truck and trailer load of Pentium Pro machines, and it will be a happy day indeed!!!!!





    P.S any chance of a pic or two????
    I will try to get a few pics up next week.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ComputerScrapper View Post
    Actually this one came from our website.
    O.K cool. a few on here seem to have websites. do you have a link?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Torker Man View Post
    O.K cool. a few on here seem to have websites. do you have a link?
    Sure, the site that this lead came in from was out network site linked to our processor....www.fortwaynecomputerrecycling.com

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    good haul . I hope everyone else is so lucky!! (including myself ) lol


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