1000+ old computer in Canada, for sale

On Jun 12, 2007, at 2:47 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote: Derek Peschel and I went up on Memorial Day. We spent about two hours there, turning over rocks. Rawn was a pleasant host, but the collection was about as I'd feared it would be: a vast bulk of highly disorganized e-waste. 50% or more of the collection was made up of Apple //e and //gs machines scavenged from public schools. If you add in fishtank Macs (almost all Plusses and Classics) that number goes up to maybe 65% or so. Of what's left, maybe 20% forms a small core of moderately interesting stuff, primarily of the "rounding out a collection" nature---possibly somewhat desireable, though nothing earth- shattering---and one relatively modern PDP-11 in a half-rack which was too buried to get more than a glance at (it might've been an / 83). The quantity of dross is so great, in my opinion, that it overwhelms any real value which may be extracted. A rough estimate puts the count at 350 //es, 200 //gses, 85 Plusses, and another 80 or so Classics. Contrast that with the single (one) ][plus I saw. I counted 15 or so C=64 machines, and maybe five power supplies. The // gses mostly have monitors, but there was a visible shortage of keyboards, mice, and disk drives. This theme repeated itself over, and over. I'm working on crunching some solid figures in terms of time, energy, bulk, potential return on investment, storage, waste disposal options, and what the Customs people are likely to do to me. Rawn has expressed disinterest in allowing cherry-picking; in fact he went so far as to mention plans to donate the lot to Bill Gates should he not find a worthy buyer. What it's boiling down to, is that I will probably make him an offer on it, but it's not likely to one he'll be excited about. I'm prepared to live with the consequences. ok bear