4x ALPS 1000 AT Keyboards, 230MB MO Drive, ClubMac 3.5" SCSI

[olePigeon]

Yay! Hit my local surplus today. Man, I'm making out like a bandit. Two awesome scores in just as many weekends.

Today I walked out (for $1 each!) 4x charcoal colored Alpa 1000 AT keyboards. They have the white, slider mechanical key switches that made Alps keyboards so good.

I also found an external 230MB MO drive. I'm planning on extracting the drive mechanism and see if I can't get it to work in my LC. Since I only paid $3 for it, I don't care if I break it.

And lastly, I found a ClubMac SCSI enclosure. It's tiny and compact with built in active termination toggle. It uses a standard power cable with a tiny, bult in power supply. Currently housed in it is a pretty useless 120MB Colorado tape drive. I'm going to put my 2.3GB MO drive in it so I'll have an external drive. $5 for the case. Not too shabby.

 

[CC_333]

Hi,

Where is this surplus? Sounds pretty neat!

c

 

[olePigeon]

Weird Stuff in Sunnyvale, California.

www.weirdstuff.com

 

[olePigeon]

Here're pictures of the mini SCSI case I found. Turns out it used to house a 105MB Syquest. It now has a 2.3GB Fujitsu GigaMO.

There's a pen so you can judge the size of it.

 

[Mk.558]

Did you find this over by their rack of various DVD and floppy drives? It's near the wall that contains the goodies found in the "other" section of WeirdStuff.

I was there last year and all I found were a stack of 1400 series models. There was also a laptop exactly like the very first laptop I ever had, the one I had ran Windows 95 and could run 98 if it wasn't for the RAM expansion card that had a bad chip, so every once in awhile it'd lock up.

I also went over to their area of joysticks and gaming junk "in the other section" but didn't find what I was looking for, a USB flight stick.

 

[olePigeon]

I found them all in the back area, in the As-Is section, not at the front. I rarely find anything in the front area. Usually I go about once a month and check out the back area because they've often gotten new items in, with the exception for this month. I went back today in hopes of finding the A/UX media folder, thinking that maybe it had fallen out somewhere. No luck. But in my fairly thorough search, I found those other items.

The mini SCSI case was in the very back near their emergency exit door, same as the MO drive. They have a few narrow isles of metal racks with about 100 full heigh drives on the floor. Mixed about on the racks are about a thousand Orb drives, Jaz drives, Zip drives, Syquest drives, Bernoulli drives, floppy drives, some CD or DVD drives, etc. A few isles over is where I found my AppleTalk to Ethernet bridge.

 

[CC_333]

Hi,

I was browsing their website, and found that they have Apple 50-pin SCSI drives, ranging in size from 40 MB up to somewhere in the 500-600 MB range.

I'd get a bunch, but unfortunately, the prices are rather steep ($50 is the minimum).

It's nice to know if I need one and I have the money, I suppose.

Do they have more neat Apple stuff (systems, etc.) back in the back?

c

 

[olePigeon]

It's rare to find any systems in the back, they're usually up in the front. Right now the oldest they have are Gigabit G4s.

Yeah, their SCSI drives are expensive. If you're lucky, you might find one in the back area inside a case somewhere.

 

[CC_333]

OK.

I live relatively nearby (east and north SF Bay Area), so maybe I'll try to go by there sometime (which is hardly ever).

c

 

[JRL]

I've said this before... Weird Stuff is awesome and is a must go for anybody in the Bay.

Awesome find! They have lots of SCSI enclosures (sometimes with drives) for cheap so that's always good.

 

[Mk.558]

I was browsing their website, and found that they have Apple 50-pin SCSI drives, ranging in size from 40 MB up to somewhere in the 500-600 MB range.

I'd get a bunch, but unfortunately, the prices are rather steep ($50 is the minimum).

That is very interesting because in the So. CA conquest I uncovered a box full of 50 pin stock factory hard drives, in the shipping box with a foam padded carrier.

Took a look at it. Thought about it. Answer: Nope.

Although...if I was willing to spend more...I should have picked up that //e...but I'd flip it nearly immediately.