Downsizing - many systems available

WOW - a lot of response in just 1/2 day! Just a few notes to clear up a few things: I am NOT "giving away" the collection - I will no doubt give away some parts of it, but I know local (to me) collectors who will take those bits, so please only ask for freebies if you are very close to Ottawa, Ontario. It also doesn't do much good to ask me "how much do you want for xxx" as I really don't know, as I have never made a point of placing values on the items in the collection - better to let me know what it is worth to you. Ultimately any particular item will go to whomever places the highest offer, or in some cases places where I know the particular bit of equipment will do the most good or have beneficial effect. At present I am planning to keep at least one of the Altairs, the Imsai, the Vector, the Horizon, the H8. one of the "chicklet" Pet 2001s the VLC VAX, the D6809 (or course) and a probably couple of others I have not decided on ***. *** I'll willing to entertain offers on these systems, but don't expect them to be cheap - I'm just as happy to hang on to them. I'm not keen to ship - I know this lets out many (most) of you, but preference will definately be given to people who can arrange pickup or take care of most of the shipping hassles remotely. In particular, I can't easily tell you what shipping will cost - most of this stuff is heavy, and it is a lot of work to pack something, measure it, weigh it and get a quote - which will likely be too high (as you all know, much of this stuff isn't worth the cost to ship). I'm happy to work with you to figure out ways to get things to you - perhaps piggybacking transport on someone already planning to come here etc.. (You might be able to coordinate such things through the list as well). Thanks, Dave -- dave13 (at) Dave Dunfield dunfield System/Firmware development services: www.dunfield.com (dot) com Classic computers: http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield