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First post, by jonesmacarrones

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Hi all.

Disclaimer: I am not associated with the owner of the stuff, I just went there to buy things, found out he is a nice guy so I thought to share to help him out, I am not getting anything out of this.

I know I am risking my neck posting this here, I know is not allowed to post ads but I found this guy in Kitchener - Ontario with a lot of awesome vintage PC, Atari, Commodore, Mac and much much more stashed in a warehouse, he is looking to sell everything before the end of this month. He was really nice to me and my wife when I went there so I am trying to help him move this stuff and avoid good old hardware to be recycled for gold.

Floyd, the owner, is a simple guy, does not have Facebook to create an ad so a friend created one but left out all the nice computer things, so this place is pretty much unexplored apart from myself going there and grabbing a couple of PCs.

All the pictures I took there: https://www.flickr.com/photos/201285671@N08/
How I found him: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/457775723702779/

Please don't reach out to me for anything else since I am not going there anymore, if you want to buy something from him you will have to talk with Mike through the ad to schedule a time to go there in person and negotiate with Floyd, hopefully respectfully.
I just ask to not lowball the guy to oblivion, he knows when people do that, he complained about some other people that went there. He is a nice guy just trying to make money of stuff he have been collecting for 12 years.

Hopefully my neck will still be intact here once I post this 😜

P166 MMX, 64Mb, S3 Trio64V+, Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 - DOS & W98
Athlon 1.3Ghz, 256Mb DDR, Voodoo 5 5500, SB Live! 5.1 0100 - DOS & W98
i5 3550 3.7Ghz, 16Gb, MSI GTX 980 Ti - WinXP & W7
5900X 4.7Ghz, 32 Gb, 3080 Ti FTW 3 - W11

Reply 1 of 2, by jonesmacarrones

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Aaaaaaaaaaaand its gone, not sure how to edit the original post though, someone went there and bought the whole warehouse.

P166 MMX, 64Mb, S3 Trio64V+, Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 - DOS & W98
Athlon 1.3Ghz, 256Mb DDR, Voodoo 5 5500, SB Live! 5.1 0100 - DOS & W98
i5 3550 3.7Ghz, 16Gb, MSI GTX 980 Ti - WinXP & W7
5900X 4.7Ghz, 32 Gb, 3080 Ti FTW 3 - W11

Reply 2 of 2, by VivienM

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Bought the whole warehouse?!?!? Does that mean the buyer is going to be reselling most of the items they don't want to keep over the next few months? Which, if you have the real estate and the time, is not a bad strategy... isn't that roughly what people did with Computer Reset in Texas?

(I had actually been slightly talking to Mike about taking a look, but didn't think I would have a chance to make it out there until next weekend...)