2 Sep
2004
2 Sep
'04
8:07 p.m.
>>
>> A CC of cards, paper tape (unused) including DEC factory fanfold.
>>
DEFINITELY interested in the paperr tape iff some is avail!
>>
>> Random piles of some DEC modules. I cannot ID these; two
>> plstic handles on human end, cardedge on the buss end. 80s.
>> RAM boards. Some new-in-boxes (but those could of course be
>> "return for repair" after module swap.)
No numbers or other marks on the plastic handles?????
>> CCs of HP, TI calculators. We earlier found
complete sets
>> of working HP25's with card readers complete with
>> bomb-crater calc software on magstrips (utterly
>> non-classified; it's a standard physics calc).
If a TI-59 is there......
>> Keep in mind this stuff is scattered ALL OVER
THE PLACE on
>> towering shelves in a 50,000 sq ft ex-supermarket. It's out
>> of the weather, but it gets COLD UP THERE in the winter, so
>> things like wirewrap are suspect at best.
Don't get lost!!!!
>> I can assure you you won't find an
undiscovered cache of
>> working minis up there, but there's a LOT OF MISCELLANY.
PDP-8's have been known to show up in VERY strange places <grin>
>> Please drop my name when you go -- it's no
ego for me, but
>> Ed knows me and I told him I'd refer people up there, and
>> you're likely to get a better deal. Plan on spending a day
>> there, or better yet, two days.
>> Seriously, I've been going there since 1994 and never get
>> to see it all; it grows monthly and his assistant Frank, an
>> ex-lab nerd and artist, has done an amazing job of
>> organizing and extracting crap.
Wish I could get there, but I am on the wrong side of the country....