[Milsurplus] Apex Electronics

[Clare Owens]

The nice part about my working at the IBM Buffalo branch office from 1965
until 1976 was that for a long time the Field Engineering parts room guys
just put all of the parts that the CEs brought in that were not returnable
to the factory down in the general trash room in the building's basement.
They were supposed to smash them but they had no hammer.  The only
sledgehammer in the building was in the Office Products storage room down
the hall and it normally was unmanned and locked.  OP used the hammer to
smash all of the non-IBM typewriters they took in trade.  Sometimes the FE
guys would use an old electric motor to try to mangle the other parts - if
they were throwing out a motor that day.

So I hauled lots of interesting things home over the years.  As usual I wish
I'd hung onto some of the more interesting and now historic items.

One thing I did learn there though was that the people who toss the stuff
don't want to know about the mistakes they make.  So I stopped asking and
making suggestions and just hauled.

Oh the good old days...

Clare  N2RJB


On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:53 AM, J. Forster <jfor at quik.com> wrote:

> IBM did the same thing with tubes. Every am the CE replaced a bunch of
> tubes.
>
> It was probably cheaper to replace the tubes than track down a failure or
> intermittant.
>
> I probably have a box of 12A?7s and 2D21s somewhere.
>
> -John
>