Date   : Mon, 12 Mar 1984 19:29:00 mst
From   : VaughanW.REFLECS@hi-multics
Subject: Re: A good deal on Shugart model 800 8-inch drives.

happy to hear that Selectronics still exists -- when I was at Drexel in
the early 60's it was a favorite hangout of some of us radio amateurs.
The people who ran it seemed to have no idea of the market value of the
stuff they had, but they knew to the penny what they had paid for it -
and eventually they would be able to make a profit, I guess, if they
held whatever it was long enough.

The stuff they sold was always good or you could take it back (unheard
of among Philly surplus dealers at the time) and the prices were often
fabulous.

Once a friend and I bought a whole gang of computer circuit boards from
them because we needed the power transistors for a project.  When done
strippilng them we cut all the little daughter boards off them, went
down to Arch St.  (Philly's Radio Row, soon to be a victim of urban
renewal) and sold the daughter boards to  another dealer -- got the
power transistors for free and made a net profit!

It's nice to know they are still doing the same stuff after 20 years.
                               Bill (ex-WA2WCO)