Intro (belated)

Heh... I should probably have done this just after I subscribed. Oh well... Yes, it's me. Some of you may already have at least gotten an E-mail from me, or spoken to me on the phone. I have a whole garage full of DEC stuff, including several MicroVAX II's, MicroPDP-11/23 and 11/73, appropriate monster hard drives, a couple of Cipher front-loading tape units, various parts and racks, etc. DEC stuff is my current Big Thing, though I regret that I don't have the space nor the power facilities to handle the full-size machines (like the 11/70 or the VAX-11 series). Still, MicroVAXen and the PDP's make for interesting diversions. I've been working with electronics since I was old enough to start tearing things apart (not that I got them back together that often!), have been a ham radio op since 1977, and working with computers on and off since 1978. I currently work at Boeing Defense & Space group, operations, computing support (been there since November). I am happily married, and my mate knew darn well what she was getting into when she married a techie. I'm not a Washington native, though I do live in Kent at the moment (I think of myself as an 'unrepentant Californian'). For those that are curious beyond this post, I invite you to have a look at http://www.wizards.net/technoid. Among other things, I have a listing of both Washington and California electronics-oriented swap meets and surplus stores on the link 'The Wonderful World of Scrounging.' I gladly invite corrections and updates to said list! Let's see, what else...? I try to make at least two trips a year to the Bay Area for scrounging purposes (Sam? Want to get together sometime and introduce me to some of the other local collectors?<g>), and to meet up with a friend of mine in San Jose who shares my interests. We've often done selling or buying trips to the Bay Area swap meets together, having known each other since about 1980. That's about all I can think of at the moment. Caveat emptor! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, Sysop, The Dragon's Cave BBS (Fidonet 1:343/272) (Hamateur: WD6EOS) (E-mail: kyrrin(a)wizards.net) http://www.wizards.net/technoid "Our science can only describe an object, event, or living thing in our own human terms. It cannot, in any way, define any of them..."