glitch
Veteran Member
If you live in the Hudson Valley and haven't been to P&T Surplus, now is probably the time to go:
In addition to the huge variety of industrial surplus stuff, there's almost always vintage computer stuff there, and priced really reasonably! Everything from stuff as new as Pentium 3 era IBM Thinkpads, to neon lamp front panels off what I'd guess were IBM tabulating machines. I was there in early February and picked up a bunch of stuff from their board scrap, including a DEC Unibus core memory board, and a bunch of random scrap boards with tons of 2114 SRAMs and 4116 DRAMs. There was some S-100 stuff there too, but the card edge fingers had been sheared off for gold (Mr. Smythe says the boards often arrive that way).
I've found Augat wire wrap boards, boxes of wire wrap sockets, lots of 7400 series TTL, Z80s, 8080s, 6502s, 6800 series...all sorts of 8-bit vintage computer stuff. Sometimes there's ISA boards and SCSI hard disks.
P&T Surplus in Kingston struggles as owners battle illnesses, mounting bills
KINGSTON, N.Y. — After 60 years of being the destination for every kind of odd and end under the sun, P&T Surplus at 198 Abeel St. is fighting for survival as its owners struggle to pay mountin…
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In addition to the huge variety of industrial surplus stuff, there's almost always vintage computer stuff there, and priced really reasonably! Everything from stuff as new as Pentium 3 era IBM Thinkpads, to neon lamp front panels off what I'd guess were IBM tabulating machines. I was there in early February and picked up a bunch of stuff from their board scrap, including a DEC Unibus core memory board, and a bunch of random scrap boards with tons of 2114 SRAMs and 4116 DRAMs. There was some S-100 stuff there too, but the card edge fingers had been sheared off for gold (Mr. Smythe says the boards often arrive that way).
I've found Augat wire wrap boards, boxes of wire wrap sockets, lots of 7400 series TTL, Z80s, 8080s, 6502s, 6800 series...all sorts of 8-bit vintage computer stuff. Sometimes there's ISA boards and SCSI hard disks.