Doug here, I'm the Pottstonian of the group so
I'll do the dump.
The owner, Bill Kemner, used to operate a store at the famous
Gilbertsville Zern's farmers market.
For decades he and his family bought up auctions and offered the
items for sale in his store and
at ham fests. He is a Navy veteran and work on shipboard UNIVAC
computers.
A number of years ago he moved out of Zerns into this
warehouse.
Bill has quite a bit of old electronic components, two isles,
perhaps 30 feet long, full with small bins of misc parts.
He also has LOT of tubes- a large closet full of them ("The
tube room").
He has several rooms of old A/V media, equipment, and tube
radios.
Other stuff runs the gamut
of typical yard sale household items to scientific gear,
including at
this time, an electron microscope... and an IBM System 30.
And yes he has a lot of vintage microcomputer gear, including
software, cables, accessories.
Here's the sad part for us: Much of the pre- IBM PC computers
he has were stored in outdoor semi trailers and
much have sustained either fairly extreme temperature, moisture
and in many cases outright water damage.
That being said for some purposes the computers are useful. He
tends to be "optimistic" about what things
are worth, but you can always make offers. Last summer he
brought out a lot of additional stored computer
equipment. There is currently a lot of Apple II+s and IIe's out
on pallets. The Apples and TRS-80s computers
usually came from schools and have school brandings on them in
some cases.
There is a also room of that is a 90s computer store time
capsule.
A few of us locals have used trips to Kemners as a good reason
to get together out here and that's been great.
I'd love to have that happen with the further away folks
sometime. Its entirely possible to burn half a day
lost in there. If you need to bring the family on the loop,
there are some not-too-far-away places of interest:
Check out Saint Peter's Village and the Hopewell Furnace Rev war
iron works.
Is anyone familiar with this? http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/for/5918505303.html surplus and vintage electronics (POTTSTOWN PA) 114 S. WASHINGTON ST