Richer Sounds Exeter Partially re-opens tomorrow

[abacus]

http://www.richersounds.com/stores/exeter

Enjoy

Bill

 

[Deleted member 2457]

http://www.richersounds.com/stores/exeter

Enjoy

Bill

Good news.

 

[spiny norman]

http://www.richersounds.com/stores/exeter

Wow, that was quick! Happy to see they're back trading.

 

[Andrewjvt]

To grab an open box(burnt box) special price

 

[Benedict_Arnold]

To grab an open box(burnt box) special price

My brother had a job in the early 90s salvaging PCs and other computers (when the prices were such that they were actually worth salvaging) after office fires. Typically if a fire started on one floor of a building. all the sprinklers on that floor (at least) would go off and al the other computers in the building would routinely be written off due to probable smoke or water damage. His employer would work with the building owner's or tenant companies' insurance and swap out mother boards, cases, hard disks, etc. to build working PCs that could then be sold on, usually as "factory reconditioned" (ahem). The profits were split 50 / 50 with the insurer.

On one occasion they had to salvage a full IBM mainframe, water cooled, that was flown in from Germany, got left outside on the tarmac, at Minneapolis airport in December.

Fixing the computers usually meant putting the components in an infrared drying oven, cleaning off the boards with idustrial solvents that could probably give cancer to half of the US if released into the atmosphere, etc. etc.

I got a Sun Sparcstation 5 off him for $10,000 when the list price new was $20,000. It's still in my attic, unused for the last sixteen years, but I expect that with a new CMOS battery and possibly a new boot eprom it would fire straight up again.

HOWEVER, I wouldn't touch smoke or water damaged home electronics with a fireman's ladder, let alone a ten foot pole, as cleaning them up requires the sort of industrial resources Joe Public just doesn't have access to.

 

[Andrewjvt]

To grab an open box(burnt box) special price

My brother had a job in the early 90s salvaging PCs and other computers (when the prices were such that they were actually worth salvaging) after office fires.  Typically if a fire started on one floor of a building. all the sprinklers on that floor (at least) would go off and al the other computers in the building would routinely be written off due to probable smoke or water damage.  His employer would work with the building owner's or tenant companies' insurance and swap out mother boards, cases, hard disks, etc. to build working PCs that could then be sold on, usually as "factory reconditioned" (ahem).  The profits were split 50 / 50 with the insurer.

On one occasion they had to salvage a full IBM mainframe, water cooled, that was flown in from Germany, got left outside on the tarmac, at Minneapolis airport in December.

Fixing the computers usually meant putting the components in an infrared drying oven, cleaning off the boards with idustrial solvents that could probably give cancer to half of the US if released into the atmosphere, etc. etc.

I got a Sun Sparcstation 5 off him for $10,000 when the list price new was $20,000.  It's still in my attic, unused for the last sixteen years, but I expect that with a new CMOS battery and possibly a new boot eprom it would fire straight up again.

HOWEVER, I wouldn't touch smoke or water damaged home electronics with a fireman's ladder, let alone a ten foot pole, as cleaning them up requires the sort of industrial resources Joe Public just doesn't have access to.

 

It was only a joke

 

[Benedict_Arnold]

Sorry.

Had my funny gland removed by the wife....