I keep thinking I'm done, I'll never score anything again, it's all over... and then I run across something cool.
First score was actually like a few months ago, I picked up a IIcx, a couple small Apple monitors and some peripherals, all unknown condition for 10 bucks. IIcx was DOA, battery dead, caps leaked everywhere. Recapped, cleaned it up, converted to CR2032 battery and it works great! Even came with 32MB RAM and an ethernet card.
Second score was yesterday/today. Found a Facebook ad for "free old TVs" and spotted a 12" pizza box monitor so I went and grabbed that and a cool little CGA 9" CRT. I asked the lady if they have anything else and was told that they do, they're cleaning out an estate house that was lived in by someone who operated a computer repair place and that I could stop by today to look around.
Well, the house was absolutely awful. Filthy, junk everywhere as expected. The guy had huge piles of newspapers, boxes, paperwork, just a disaster in general. But weird things stashed here and there - brand new K-Mart box fans from the 70's I'm guessing, boxes upon boxes of brand new but very old cabinet hardware, lots of brand new tools that had never been opened.... and occasionally some brand new computer parts. I bought several NIB IDE hard drives for $25. I also got some pizza box LCs for free - looks like two LCs and two LCIIs, one with a broken lid and another with a broken LCIII lid. No battery explosions but some rust. All complete, three network cards, one Apple IIe card, all full of hard drives, RAM and VRAM. There was a Classic II there that I tried to get as well but they wanted to keep it... no loss... it had been dropped and the case was broken. I was hoping to find more Apple stuff but didn't run across anything else.
I think the coolest thing that I saw was a Data General Eclipse machine. I have no idea if it was complete/working/etc. I thought about trying to buy it but it is gigantic, very heavy, and I just have no room for it.
