PDP-8/Is Successfully Retrieved!!!

I now have in my possession three PDP-8/Is (only around 4000 were produced) from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri! They are in reasonably crusty condition, having been stored in a garage for 10 years or more, but appear to be all there. One has no peripherals, one has a DecTape drive and another has the high-speed paper tape reader. The machine with the DecTape, which is apparently a Posibus machine, has a custom interface built out of DEC Building Blocks modules...ALOT of them and is very nifty. I expect restoration to occupy months or years but is, nevertheless, quite probable. In addition, I received a PDP-11/34 without programmers console (just the plain boot switch console) with an RK05f and an RK05j. It is tremendously heavy and my assistant and I were nearly (quite literally) crushed in our attempts to get it on the truck. Our spotter did not inform of us a dip in the concrete and it tipped backward on us with only our spotter giving us the necessary force, at the last moment, to lift it back up. It was highly unpleasant. I received several boxes of flip-chips, manuals (LOTS of manuals), tech sheets, blank paper tape still in the box and other items that I haven't had an opportunity to explore. The boxes were stored in a basement so there's a fair amount of water damage and a LOVELY musty odor (woo hoo). =-) I also received an Teletype ASR-33, for which I have manuals fortunately, in fairly crustated condition. Someone left a tape in the mechanism and, through the years of being stored in a basement, it has become yellowed, brittle and has adhered to the unit. Finally, I received an Apple LISA with the external hard drive, which apparently has some electronic problems in the monitor but sound fixable. I'll have pictures and information on the website at http://www.retrocomputing.com as soon as I get them unloaded and situated. Anthony Clifton - Wirehead