Vintage stuff here and there

Hi, What do you need? Seems a bit difficult to ship... And it's really scrap. To be clear: I never scrapped a teletype myself! But I have two units in the basements where major parts have been taken out by someone else who used them to complete another unit. Not my fault. I disagree. I've been following eBay for interesting stuff in the last years. Yes, prices are rising here (Germany), too. But not like in the USA. We never saw a teletype with broken cover go for $1400 or similar. But we see teletypes ending without bids sometimes. Especially model 35 units when they're to far away to pick up. The heaviest I've seen so far was an incomplete PDP-8/L on eBay Germany going for approx EUR 1900. But that was exceptional and totally crazy. From my point of view, collecting vintage computer stuff is a game. A bit like a detective game. Get information, investigate, find stuff. It's not a business thing. We here also deliberately trade our stuff. Or just taking or givin each other. Storage space capabilities are a more important topic than eBay prices. I think that makes a major difference between our little scene and what's going on in US (especially eBay US). By the way, it was only about ASR33s. What's an ASR33? A pile of plastic and springs, that makes a lot of noise and is ugly inside. I prefer the 5 bit Teletype model 15 (ok, German license builds) as a beautiful mechanical machine (Two machines from my collection can be seen working in the quite recent "Valkyrie" movie). The model 28 and 35 are quite nice as well. M28 is very rare here. Never saw one. Only 35 and 33 are around here. So would you save a machine like this? http://hachti.de/a1/img_0171_1024.jpg That's the more usual state you find 33s here. The unit in the picture will go to scrap, I'm pretty sure. Could try to rescue it if anyone wants it. But shipping to US is very expensive. Regards, Philipp -- http://www.hachti.de