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AgingAmerican

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4. Back in the early 2000s
Mon Oct 15, 2012, 12:15 PM
Oct 2012

There was a place near Seattle called 'Boeing Surplus' that was the official retail outlet of the Boeing corporation for their old surplus computers, tools, equipment, etc.

One day I was in there and they had some of their old mainframe computers from the 70s in there. Huge things they were, and they were selling them for $150 each. I almost bought one, just because I know they originally paid millions for them, but my wife would have killed me had I brought something like that home. The geek in me still regrets not getting one, on some level.

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