Caleb Hansberry
Veteran Member
This is not another Computer Reset post! I went to my favorite (and the only) local junk shop today and was shocked to see a "store closing sale" sign! I will try to get a video before they close, but they say they close at the end of this month, so we really don't have much time.
OEM Parts is not a vintage computer paradise like CR. I may have gotten the only actual vintage computers there (except today they also had an Osborne). However, they have TONS and TONS of hardware. I'll try to show what I can in pictures. They have RAM chips, ROM chips, batteries, transistors, resistors, capacitors, LEDs, AC adapters, all kinds of rare connectors, ISA cards, PCI cards, a few of those long PCI cards that I cant remember if theyre VLB or MCA, floppy drives, hard drives, audio equipment, a million old radios, motors, any kind of wire imaginable, adapters like VGA, SCSI, or audio, signal generators, vacuum tubes, calculators, probes, strange old equipment I dont know what it is... last time I was there, on Wednesday the 17th, there were tektronics scopes and a Sony Laserdisc player...
I'll post my finds later. I scored some odd old portable computer, a british oscilloscope, and a Caleb floptical drive - which of course I have always been extremely keen to get. Prices are very low - RAM chips are being charged per pound, $10 a pound I think, so I paid $3 for several tubes of 41256 chips. I highly urge you to check this place out if you want a spare stash of electronics parts or components, or if you want to look at their weird equipment in the back on the left hand side. Again, very likely no computers here. Here's some pictures I got:
Album: https://imgur.com/a/GUZX6fv
Example of component shelf:
Logic chips I guess:
The chip isle:
Some of the equipment - its just where I was at that moment, there's much more. Let me know if you want me to try to pick up a broken Tek scope, but you'll have to paypal me before I buy it, cause I spent my savings here already!
Tube tester:
They have a whole box of these, along with Jaz, floppy, Zip, tape, and some other odd 5" format:
One of the broken Tek scopes. label says it needs TLC on the focus + trigger:
Last notes - again, word is that we have until July 31st before they close. They do not know what will happen to the stuff. If you can, get the young guy to ring up your stuff, his prices are more fair than the old guy who's still living in the past, price-wise, though he can still give you a deal too.
OEM Parts is not a vintage computer paradise like CR. I may have gotten the only actual vintage computers there (except today they also had an Osborne). However, they have TONS and TONS of hardware. I'll try to show what I can in pictures. They have RAM chips, ROM chips, batteries, transistors, resistors, capacitors, LEDs, AC adapters, all kinds of rare connectors, ISA cards, PCI cards, a few of those long PCI cards that I cant remember if theyre VLB or MCA, floppy drives, hard drives, audio equipment, a million old radios, motors, any kind of wire imaginable, adapters like VGA, SCSI, or audio, signal generators, vacuum tubes, calculators, probes, strange old equipment I dont know what it is... last time I was there, on Wednesday the 17th, there were tektronics scopes and a Sony Laserdisc player...
I'll post my finds later. I scored some odd old portable computer, a british oscilloscope, and a Caleb floptical drive - which of course I have always been extremely keen to get. Prices are very low - RAM chips are being charged per pound, $10 a pound I think, so I paid $3 for several tubes of 41256 chips. I highly urge you to check this place out if you want a spare stash of electronics parts or components, or if you want to look at their weird equipment in the back on the left hand side. Again, very likely no computers here. Here's some pictures I got:
Album: https://imgur.com/a/GUZX6fv
Example of component shelf:
Logic chips I guess:
The chip isle:
Some of the equipment - its just where I was at that moment, there's much more. Let me know if you want me to try to pick up a broken Tek scope, but you'll have to paypal me before I buy it, cause I spent my savings here already!
Tube tester:
They have a whole box of these, along with Jaz, floppy, Zip, tape, and some other odd 5" format:
One of the broken Tek scopes. label says it needs TLC on the focus + trigger:
Last notes - again, word is that we have until July 31st before they close. They do not know what will happen to the stuff. If you can, get the young guy to ring up your stuff, his prices are more fair than the old guy who's still living in the past, price-wise, though he can still give you a deal too.
