[PLUG] Mini keyboards available locally?

Marvin J. Kosmal lamsokvr at xprt.net
Wed Sep 24 22:30:02 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 22:23, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> 
> Another source of keyboards is the Tektronix RAMs Country Store,
> open Thursdays at 2pm.  Company excess stock, retired equipment,
> etc.  Also about 30 weirdos that line up during the half hour before
> opening and shoot the breeze.  In the basement of building 38
> (used to be electrochem, what *is* that brown stuff dripping down
> the walls, anyway?) on the main Tek campus, and since all Portland
> area technologists over 40 used to work at Tek at one point or
> another, just find an old fart and ask where that is.
> 
> They sometimes get minature keyboards.  Heck, once they had a
> stack of brand new ones in the box for $5.  I got one, real handy
> for troubleshooting.  Last I looked, they had a small heap of
> Sun Sparcstation 5's and earlier, plenty of big keyboards, a few
> 300MHz Pentium towers, some old test equipment, and plenty of oddball
> electronic components.  A week ago, they had a huge server rack
> full of 4GB SCSI hotswap hard drives, $100 for 160GB the hard way.
> So odds are low that you will find a mini keyboard, but not zero.
> Fairly high that you will find something or someone interesting.

Well, for someone who dosen't know.
Where is this place??

TIA

 
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