For Sale: spotted on Craigslist (continuous sightings)

[RadRacer203]

https://fortcollins.craigslist.org/s...031086953.html Very clean looking Commodore CBM 8032 for $650

Wow, I've never actually seen an original box for the PET

[Samir]

https://fortcollins.craigslist.org/s...031086953.html Very clean looking Commodore CBM 8032 for $650

Absolutely amazing.

I wonder what the story is behind it? Forgotten box in a warehouse? For 40-50 years?

[ScutBoy]

https://minneapolis.craigslist.org/r...017427692.html Someone near the Twin Cities must want a DEC PDP-11 rack head surely (or would ship it to me pretty please!)

Whoever got this - you're welcome! I contacted the seller and was going to pick it up just to get the display plate, when he contacted me and said someone in Texas really wanted the plate, and was it ok if he sent it to him, and I just took the rack.

I told him the plate was what i wanted to save, so to go ahead and send it, and he could do what he wanted with the rest of the rack...

[liqmat]

I literally just got done downsizing and then of course this pops up and fairly close by. For sanity sake I am going to have to pass, but if anyone else lives in Florida...

https://sarasota.craigslist.org/sys/...028903263.html

[Samir]

I literally just got done downsizing and then of course this pops up and fairly close by. For sanity sake I am going to have to pass, but if anyone else lives in Florida...

https://sarasota.craigslist.org/sys/...028903263.html

Yeah, this load would instantly undo almost any downsizing, but there's a lot of neat stuff in there from many different eras.

[Exceter]

$40 IBM 5170: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...6618068327018/

[Samir]

$40 IBM 5170: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...6618068327018/

I can confirm that is the original IBM 5.25" drive. They were really unique in their design.

[vwestlife]

I can confirm that is the original IBM 5.25" drive. They were really unique in their design.

It's a Ye-Data drive. IBM's later 360K drives were manufactured by them as well. More reliable than the Qume drives used in the PCjr and Portable PC, but the loud click when the motor turns on and off is annoying.

[Samir]

So cool to learn why that thing was so loud! Our nec or teac drives were never that loud. But it felt robust as anything that's for sure.