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The last 3 weeks have been a bit busy. We recieved a very nice B series IBM AS/400, plus docs. A System 36 PC is also promised later. We picked up an abandoned Wang VS-85 system in Wells River, Vt. BNo power in building so everything had to be broken down with a trouble light on a long extension cord. 3 CDC 9766 drives, one for parts I think, plus the cpu, an 8 inch archiver and some unknown bits. A nice find was an Apollo MSD cabinet cabled into the system. We also found a new type of Wang terminal, the 2866, which we had not seen before. We visited Syosset, NY to pick up a Datamaster that Rich Cini gave us, and this morning receieved a frantic e-mail about some DEC equipment in Danvers. The owning company was transferring some of its operations to Texas, and we were given what amounted to a small DEC computer room - platters, tapes, platter cabinets, a CDC 9762 drive, a micro-Vax, a PDP-11/53, and a 3-cabinet PDP11/83, plus a large number of orange and grey manuals.