Once more into the bins

List forgive me, its been two months since I had anything good to confess ... I finally had some time to spend at a couple of scrap places I like, and it was both good and bad. First place is a huge nationwide scrap company with offices in three or four states, GoldenWest, and in the past a place where I have seen a lot of decent old iron. Its the place I posted to the list a few months ago that had the batch tape drives and HP minis. They now have a full time ebay guy and it looks like the stream of older stuff now goes straight to scrap without public access. Second place is much smaller, couple industrial units that are packed to the top with pallets, taken out and spread all around outside every morning to sort, and packed back in each night. This one was good for a couple hours of head down in the bins time, but not much in the "classic" 10+ years old category except for a couple old mac bits (some 9 pin localtalk adapters, a mac plus numeric keyboard, and some odd bits like big 5 pin original PC to ps/2 keyboard adapters and extension cables). There were about 5 gaylords (pallet sized cardboard boxes) of misc circuit boards, and 4,000 small punctures to my fingers later I had a nice pile of video, network, scsi, and ide cards. Nothing fancy, but a couple nice PCI video cards for older macs, typical Adaptec 2940, ata66 and ata133 cards, and quite interesting a handfull of Ati 10/100bt combo fiber cards with various fiber connections. I do have a question about one card I saw, but unfortunately missed. A Nubus card that was full length, but populated sparsely with nothing but 14 to 20 pin dips, Apple branded (sorry didn't write down the number, actually sorrier I didn't just grab it while it was on top of the heap) and labeled Bus Master or mastering maybe. OK, not too exciting or classic, but like I said its been a nasty dry spell.