yep, the ad in the paper said 'free osciliscope and electronics parts' Tony would have had a boner at this one. I picked up a nice Tek 422 scope with 3 probes, and then filled the car with boxes of TTL, and every other type discrete electronics, a few power supplies and a few other goodies packed within. There was a boxed Imsai PIO-4 and a few other s100 cards (8k static and a few wirewrapped z80 processors). There were a few incredible chips in pile that the foam really screwed up... check out: http://bellsouthpwp.net/d/o/dogas/chips1.jpg There was a ceramic C8080A with the pins completly eaten away , a Ceramic MOS 6532 that faired only a little better, a ceramic/traced AMI 6810, and a early plastic 6502 and 6530 among the more conventional stuff. Any recommendations on neutralizing/cleaning the gunk of the ceramics? Oh yeah, then there was the boxed SD Z-80 Starter Kit SBC with manual and cassette. A sweet little sbc with 2 s-100 slots (installable) but I had to buy that one for $8 It has been a long dry season and all I can say is its about damn time. ;) - Mike: dogas at bellsouth.net