Making the save at the scrappers

4 person sized IBM rolling storage racks, and a pallet stacked as high as my head of old servers from UCLA, plus a bin of misc from the same place. Sadly I can't take anything big and ALL the hard drives were pulled, but anybody interested that can hook up in SoCal/Corona very very soon email me asap. Curious stuff I found are stacks of floppies that claim to be S/390 microcode from 1991, a dozen maybe 3363 optical discs, a stamped metal wrench with an IBM part number, PowerPC diagnostic CDs, and piles of misc parts and optical cable. Most of the servers were the big double wide chassis monsters, but I did put my name on a couple of the smaller ones, a C20 and I think its called a WorkStation 400 (desktop PC sized with a odd flip up visor type thing on the front. The C20 I think is the last of the MCA designs from IBM, and it doesn't look like AIX will be too hard to get, even if I have to buy a legal copy.

Opto22 modules were the literal grab from the breakage bin. Maybe a dozen pc boards, half with modules (like logic to 240 vac) and screw down connectors, half Sensory Input boards with just screw downs and a ribbon connector on the back. Quick check on ebay and looks like my retirement plans are on hold, but in a way thats good news since its all cheap enough that I can afford to play with it, instead of greedily selling it.