TRW Acquisitions

Since rain was forecast for today, the seller turnout was less than normal and pickings were a bit slim. However I did pick up a couple of interesting things. For $1 each, I picked up an Ampex core memory board (and gave it to a friend of mine, another collector), a Beckman S-100 microprocessor board, an Intel Multibus Single Board Computer 80/10A, and an Intel Multibus 80/10B card of some sort. The only reason I picked up the Intel Multibus boards was because they are were dated 1976 and 1985 respectively (and they were only $1 each!) I've picked up Multibus memory cards in the past for the same reason. I haven't checked out my Intel Development System and they may fit is a system like that. Anyone collect/save from scrap these things ... besides me:). I did get a lead on a guy who sells S-100 cards down there, but didn't have any this time. So, I'll make him a regular stop when I see him next time. The last time I saw his S-100 cards, they were priced at $5 each which is probably fine for the IMSAI I/O cards I saw, but perhaps high for the other "no name", i.e. I didn't recognize the name, cards that looked like disk controllers. I did see a DigiLogic unit that appeared to be some type of logic analysis unit, an Atari 400, and the usual collection of early Mac and IBM stuff, but I wasn't interested so I didn't check prices.