Haha you were technically correct, the best kind!

Is there a website or link for more details on that Lockheed store?

I think it closed down when they shut down the factories here in the Minneapolis area (Eagan). It was a neat place, at the time.

Still have the Sun3? :P

Just the shell, but it is loved. :) Will be housing a new threadripper next, when AMD gets around to the zen 4 releases.

https://i.imgur.com/S5F31qW.jpg https://i.imgur.com/SpMMPXQ.jpg

The magic had already left the old Sun hardware, when we tried it.

Probably why it was surplussed. Pretty much all of that era stuff requires hacking to go, nowadays.

Man I will say it ! Before Apple made beautiful computers... Sun made very pretty machines (for that era !) I always wanted one of those purple beasts :D

What did you run on it?

My wife came into our relationship with not just one, not just two, but THREE NeXTcubes. I negotiated her down to one actually-working one and one decorative one, and gave away the third.

And she still married you. Lucky guy.

Well, I came with a Sun 4/110 that I'd been dragging around for decades, so it wasn't that one-sided.

Match made in IT Heaven :) Congrats to both of you on the acquisition!

I had a proliant 7000 (quad pentium II xeon) for a while, it was 16U and as loud as three vacuum cleaners. The spouse was very happy when that disappeared.

About 20 years ago I moved into a tiny studio with my first serious girlfriend. She didn't appreciate the beautiful sounds of my 1980's IBM Model M keyboard I'd been using since I was 5. Probably more so since I usually worked late into the night. Given another gripe was the significant amount of floor/deskspace used by my two 19" CRT monitors, I compromised, and replaced the Model M with some $20 logitech thing, throwing the M out in the trash.

I really regret that decision.

Lockheed Outlet Store - as in, Lockheed Martin?

Used to be a Boeing surplus store in Seattle found some great stuff there too.

Bookshelves, desks, old and new machine tooling, gigantic wrenches

Boeing does a lot of surplusing through EHLI Auctions [1] these days. Prices aren't always great, and I'm not sure I've seen machine tooling or huge wrenches, but big batches of office and workshop stuff marked boeing surplus from time to time.

[1] https://cyberauctions.com/Auctions.php

Similarly, GE does it through Link Warehouse (https://www.linkwarehouse.com/), but it is geared towards industrial equipment. I haven't noticed any office stuff.