<div dir="auto">The museum is closed indefinitely. The curator passed away last year and I think its future is up in the air right now.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I was hoping they'd have one of there yard sales, ut it looks like I missed it. It was in May.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon., Jul. 22, 2019, 12:07 p.m. Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc, <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
We rarely get them in. This is the second or third request I have<br>
heard of in the past month for this old stuff. If we do get stuff like<br>
this in maybe we can hold it aside and post to the list. <br>
<br>
In terms of old stuff, we do have some 5.25" floppies (blank), some<br>
3.5" floppies, and maybe some ancient 30 pin RAM kicking around. We<br>
also have AT keyboards for some reason.<br>
<br>
It occurs to me that you might check in with the computer museum guys.<br>
They might get extra contributions that are sufficiently common they<br>
don't need them for their collection, but sufficiently old that<br>
somebody thought they belonged in a museum.<br>
<br>
<a href="https://pcmuseum.ca/donations.asp" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://pcmuseum.ca/donations.asp</a><br>
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- Paul<br>
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<br>
On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 11:55:41AM -0400, Colin Mackay wrote:<br>
> I have not! But I fear a lot of what they get is more modern than I am<br>
> looking for. Perhaps one of them could chime in if they ever see any old<br>
> 80's or 90's systems come in... and if they make them available at all.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 11:32 AM CrankyOldBugger <<a href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> > Not to speak out of turn here, but have you talked to our laptop recycling<br>
> > experts Paul and Charles?<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 at 11:29, Colin Mackay <<a href="mailto:zixiekat@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">zixiekat@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> >> Me too. I was crying while typing.<br>
> >><br>
> >> It always seems to be that when I have the means to move ahead on<br>
> >> something like this, I've missed the boat on something. ;)<br>
> >><br>
> >> But I will contact some local e-waste folk!<br>
> >><br>
> >> Thanks.<br>
> >><br>
> >><br>
> >><br>
> >> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 11:02 AM Ron Singh <<a href="mailto:ronsingh149@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ronsingh149@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> >><br>
> >>> Man, questions like these make me want to cry -- just last year in May,<br>
> >>> my local IT joint had a massive purge of older parts, ranging from 486 to<br>
> >>> PIII and the associated ISA-bussed stuff, all e-wasted. Remarkable how many<br>
> >>> brand-new ATI VLB video cards were tossed, a project that went bad.<br>
> >>><br>
> >>> I think you would have the best of luck with a visit to a smaller<br>
> >>> e-waster, where you tell them that you will tear apart some older PCs and<br>
> >>> take what you want and they get some free labour. I would imagine most<br>
> >>> e-waster will frown on an outside at their premises from a liability<br>
> >>> standpoint, but mebbe not.<br>
> >>><br>
> >>> I think it worth a try.<br>
> >>><br>
> >>> I am personally looking for an ASUS ISA-486 mobo as it was best-of-breed<br>
> >>> back in the day as I have a real nice Intel 486dx4-100 CPU in hand along<br>
> >>> with the RAM/PSU/Video. Shockingly, we found a new DEC Alpha mobo that will<br>
> >>> run Win NT and likely some Debian cut. That mobo was kept:-)<br>
> >>><br>
> >>><br>
> >>> Thanks,<br>
> >>><br>
> >>> Ron Singh<br>
> >>><br>
> >>><br>
> >>><br>
> >>> On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 9:20 PM Colin Mackay <<a href="mailto:zixiekat@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">zixiekat@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> >>><br>
> >>>> Greetings,<br>
> >>>><br>
> >>>> I'm looking to revive an old 386 I once had. I've found an identical<br>
> >>>> model on ebay and it's on it's way, but it got me wondering if there was<br>
> >>>> anything in the K/W (or even Toronto) area where older computer parts may<br>
> >>>> still be available?<br>
> >>>><br>
> >>>> I've done a number of google searches, but most of the companies out<br>
> >>>> there sell more recent systems (2010+). I'm hoping for late 80's early<br>
> >>>> 90's.<br>
> >>>><br>
> >>>> If anyone knows, please let me know!<br>
> >>>><br>
> >>>><br>
> >>>> Thanks.<br>
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