On 11-Jun-97, James Willing wrote: Jim, Sounds like a good idea, and you could most certainly put me down for the Virginia area (southern Maryland, eastern Virginia, northeast North Carolina). Jeff jeffh(a)unix.aardvarkol.com -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from an Amiga 3000..the computer for the creative mind! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Collector of classic home computers: Amiga 1000, Apple II+, Atari 800, 800XL, Mega-ST/2 and XE System, Coleco ADAM, Commodore 128D, 16, Plus/4 and VIC-20, IBM 5155, Kaypro 2X, Mattel Aquarius, Osborne Executive, Radofin Aquarius, Sinclair ZX-81, TI-99/4A, Timex-Sinclair 1000, TRS-80 Color Computer-3, Model 4, and Model 4P, plus Odyssey2, Atari Superpong and 2600VCS game consoles.

James Willing wrote: Hi Jim, I was reading these posts also and was also trying to think of a way to handle these situations. I like your idea of an Index giving the location of collectors. I, for one, really appreciated Sam posting the stuff about available computers and can cover parts of central California without too much effort (parts of Los Angeles to San Luis Obispo or so.) I have also found places, primarily schools, that have a bunch of interesting stuff that sometimes sits for years safely stored away, and probably available for either taking it away (they need space) or for scrap prices. Another thought on a related subject is what to do with stuff all of us might have but are only being held to save it from the dump. As one example, I scrapped out a CADO CAT II computer a couple of months ago (I still have one!) that I would have preferred another collector had taken. Granted, I kept the boards and HD for spares but still. Another example is a Hard Disk/Floppy peripheral to an Exxon Office Systems model 500. The ONLY reason I have it is because I don't want it going to the dump. BTW, this is another instance where "The Big List of Classic Computers" has been a tremendous help in helping to identify computers/equipment. It would also be helpful to know the emphasis on everyones collections. For instance, mine is primarily early microcomputers and their associated documentation. Is anyone collecting the history of LAN's including early cards and software? Several months ago, I scrapped out a number of early IBM LAN cards because the space REALLY is getting to be a problem and I need to do something. I gave an early Novell Lan setup with the Gateway cards to a friend of mine to play around with. Some people might thing it is great to have the kind of problem I have with all the stuff here, but then again, I think it is better to have the problem of space needing computers :). BTW, yours was one of the first Web pages I ran across when I started to check out the Web for this type of activity ... very nice!

On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Marvin wrote: I can cover most of the Bay Area (California). Of course there are at least 3 other collectors on this discussion who could as well. A couple of people regularly post their trade lists (Kai for one). I am currently going through all my stuff to come up with a trade list of my own, mainly based on duplicates of systems I already own (like 6 VIC-20s, a number of TI-99/4a's...mostly common stuff). I don't want this to turn into a big trade-a-thon though. Perhaps we can start another listserve that has messages related only to buy/sell/trade? That way we won't be inundated with people spewing their requests and trade lists into the main discussion area. This would be so much easier if it were a newsgroup, but then again the quality would suffer (what with all the lame advertisement spams). Sam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Historian, Programmer, Musician, Philosopher, Athlete, Writer, Jackass

At 10:21 PM 6/11/97 -0400, you wrote: Well said... Better some than none! Hmmm, some detail perhaps? I may be interested. Thanks! -jim --- jimw(a)agora.rdrop.com The Computer Garage - http://www.rdrop.com/~jimw Computer Garage Fax - (503) 646-0174

Hello - I am running a model 580 and a parts machine would be great. What model do you have? John Ott ott(a)saturn.ee.nd.edu

Mine are 7013s, so I'll pass. Thanks. John ott(a)saturn.ee.nd.edu