Great day at Tek

[Zane H. Healy]

At 1:04 AM -0500 10/17/08, Randy Dawson wrote:
>Gang,
>
>I went to the Tektronix surplus sale today for the first time.  Wow! 
>welcome to Beaverton!
>
>I Picked up a 7004A and half a dozen plug ins for $90; 2006 cal tags 
>on everything and it works fine.
>I also got a Dell P4 1.76 Ghz 40G hard drive PC for $35, boots up fine too.

I'm stunned!  I don't believe I've seen test equipment there since 
the mid-80's.  Of course I haven't been there since 2000 or before. 
Does this mean they have stuff there worth buying?  The last time I 
was in there it was more of a furniture store than anything. 
Sometimes I think I grew up in that store, as my Dad worked at Tek 
and it seemed like every Saturday morning we'd go.  That was back 
when it was employee's only, and it was in Beaverton where Dania is 
now (though I also remember it being on the other side of 217).

My best find was a hand-held 80-column card punch back in the 
late-70's or early 80's.  I still have it in the original box.  I did 
buy an old PDP-11 rack (empty) there back around '99.

Zane


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