Weekend Acquisitions III

This is a little long and likely boring. You have been warned! I had a reasonably good weekend as well. Not as good as some, but I am pretty happy with the results. Here is how it went: Friday morning I visit one of the local thrifts and pick up some old books: Bound Unix manuals from Bell Labs. First edition K&R Early 80's Intel product catalog. Xenix text processing book. I saw a VIC-20 with tape drive, tapes, and a bunch of cartridges. Unfortunately I had only $3 in my pocket. (Don't try this at home kids, I am a trained professional.) I left with only the books. Friday afternoon I plan to leave work at 3:30, but don't get out until 6:30. Go to bank. Get money. Go back to thrift. The VIC was still there. Bought the box of stuff for $5. This included VIC-20 (still untested), CN2 (my 3rd!), 3K, 8K, and 16K memory carts, super expander cart (with manual), Forth Cart with box and manual, programmer's aid cart, machine language monitor cart, 7 cart games, and a few cassette games. Saturday morning Went to the electronics/computer/junk sale. Too much PC and Mac stuff, and not enough junk. Met Sam Ismail. Looked around at everything. Sam left for greener pastures. Bought two Sun keyboards (type 3 and type 4). (One day I'll have a full working Sun if I have to buy it one chip at a time.) At this point I had seen all there was to be seen, and I still had an hour to kill so I went off to visit a few other places and picked up another K&R, a C Programmer's Handbook (AT&T Bell Labs, can you tell I have a thing for them and C/Unix?), and a few loose Atari 400/800 carts (BASIC, logo, chess, and something else) for $1. Saturday noon Went back to the sale and met up with Uncle Roger and his girlfriend. We had an excellent lunch. Swapped a few stories. Went home and explained to my wife why I NEED 2 more Sun keyboards. Saturday afternoon Picked up 7 boxes of old software. This was from the same guy that gave George Lin that load of hardware a few weeks back. I haven't had time to go through all of it in detail, but there are several early Microsoft packages (including windows v2 and possibly v1), PC-DOS 1.1, DBase III, WordStar, PC and PC jr. technical manuals, 7 or 8 Borland packages, and a load of other stuff. Several things are still in shrink wrap. Most of this stuff will be taking up room that I would rather devote to more interesting (to me) stuff. Once I have a complete list I will be offering most for sale or trade. Anyone collect PC jr. stuff? On the way home I visited bubble wrap mecca. Greg Mast tipped me off on this place. Thanks Greg! I filled up the rest of my car with bubble wrap and headed home. Add to this 2 graduation parties and making up to my wife for being gone most of Saturday, and this was a pretty busy weekend. --pec -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saved From The Dumpster Collection: http://www.crl.com/~pcoad/machines.html