Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!VaughanW.REFLECS@hi-multics From: VaughanW.REFLECS%hi-multics@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: Re: A good deal on Shugart model 800 8-inch drives. Message-ID: <17531@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Mar-84 21:29:00 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.17531 Posted: Mon Mar 12 21:29:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 16-Mar-84 02:36:12 EST Lines: 20 happy to hear that Selectronics still exists -- when I was at Drexel in the early 60's it was a favorite hangout of some of us radio amateurs. The people who ran it seemed to have no idea of the market value of the stuff they had, but they knew to the penny what they had paid for it - and eventually they would be able to make a profit, I guess, if they held whatever it was long enough. The stuff they sold was always good or you could take it back (unheard of among Philly surplus dealers at the time) and the prices were often fabulous. Once a friend and I bought a whole gang of computer circuit boards from them because we needed the power transistors for a project. When done strippilng them we cut all the little daughter boards off them, went down to Arch St. (Philly's Radio Row, soon to be a victim of urban renewal) and sold the daughter boards to another dealer -- got the power transistors for free and made a net profit! It's nice to know they are still doing the same stuff after 20 years. Bill (ex-WA2WCO)