last-minute TI-990 available

Dear all, Quite a few of you were interested in the TI-990, so I'll post an update here. I have a taker for the system. I'll keep your emails around in case that falls through. For general interest, I picked up the system last night. The tall rack includes two CPUs, one older and one newer build, and a Fujitsu Eagle drive. The two removable pack drives are Century Data units. There are about 10 disk packs for these drives. The prints and service manual for them is included, as is a 990 overview manual. There's also the 911 terminal shown in the photo, as well as a wide carriage dot matrix printer which was not. There is a box of miscellaneous cables which may or not actually match anything. Unfortunately, the equipment was stored in an open barn for about two years, one of the Century drives was dropped several feet, the heads were not locked on any of the drives before moving them, the Century drives were moved with their packs installed, and the spare packs all have condensation on the insides of the "cake pan" lids. Otoh, the insides of the electronics are actually reasonably clean, and it should be possible to revive most of it. I suspect with some care it's probably possible to recondition the disk packs, clean the pack wells in the drives, etc. The heads were actually still in the retracted position on both of the Century drives, which is hopeful. I was actually contacted about this machine two years ago. The caller said his employer (apparently a Ford garage, I've since learned) was just taking it out of service, and was looking for information on who might be interested, what it might be worth, etc. I gave him a few pointers and asked that he let me know if he couldn't find a taker. I only wish he'd been willing to let me take it then. De