The usual mumbles

What a sight, 75% of my favorite salvage yard lined up like troops for dismisal, all headed for a big truck on Tuesday. I made a final scrounge yesterday, looked at the bottom of piles not looked at for, maybe a long time, and roamed the heap screwdriver in hand getting the tidbits I could. Bad news The Vax station II and HP 7945 I thought would be safe since they arrived just last week are part of the deal and going. Much of the odd working bits will go in the dumpster for lack of understanding. Good news Who says there is anything good about this? ;) Who knows, maybe lots of space will attract a lot of newer stuff. Found, didn't get, but wonder about anyway. Long narrow metal drawer full of punched cards dated Nov 1968, looked like maybe a program and associated data. IBM 4865 3.5" external floppy drive. Found, did get, now what? Someone asked me about AST processor modules, so I plucked 3, (2) 386, and (1) with a empty green zif socket labeled Overdrive Ready. I left behind the gutted Next Color Slab, but took the black keyboard. Will the Next keyboard work on a Mac, it looks ADB? I am running a little slow. One Decus the big joke was a story from one of the early speakers about a user complaining about the Vax running slow that week. Well, to all the people I should be getting back to on stuff, I am running a little slow this week, AND my brain is showing a lot of parity errors, so REMIND about stuff I am supposed to do for you if I haven't done it yet. If I get an insane rush of energy from all the cold pills I am taking I plan to attempt the Santee swapmeet (10 miles east of San Diego, first of hamfest swaps in Socal each month and a real JUNKFEST).