Hi all! I just discovered this mailing list a couple nights back. Now I have a place to share my cool classic comp acquisitions. :) Anyway, last weekend, when I reported to my squadron for our monthly drill, I was informed that one of our officers had brought in a whole bunch of old computer stuff that I might be interested in (he's moving across country and isn't able to pack it with him.) I had a great time sifting through the massive amount of classics that were stacked at the back of the dining hall, and deciding what I should claim. Since our little apartment here is short on storage space at the moment, I just selected a Cromemco System Two and a Cromemco System Three, as well as a box of various S-100 cards, manuals, and disks (including a complete set of Cromix-Plus and Unix System V floppies.) Had I realized that the thing that looked like a jerry can, which I thought was most likely a power supply of some sort was actually a Cromemco hard drive, I would have taken it along with the Cromemco System One that was sitting in front of it as well. Oh well, live and learn. :/ So the next day, after final roll call, I load up the stuff in the truck of the guy who gave me a ride home, and me and my roommate that afternoon start looking over everything. We were disappointed that the System Three was totally stripped of all cards (though it does have a pair of 8 inch floppy drives). The System Two on the other hand, was a different story. Not only does it have a pair of floppies, but it also has a 21MB hard drive, 3 256K RAM cards, and a couple other cards I can't remember at the moment. Since we are in need of some cash at the moment, we went ahead and put some of the excess stuff (spare manuals, extra cards, and the Fortran 77 and 68000 C packages up for auction. We might also sell off one of the 256K cards that's in the System Two as well. But that isn't the point of this post (not wanting to turn this into a FA posting, y'know). We are looking forward to one day having the room to set up the System Two and actually making her a part of our little home LAN. I'm predicting that this is going to be a long term project, much like restoring a classic car. I suppose the most important thing I need to get for her is some sort of terminal/control console. Fortunately, dumb terminals show up at the thrift stores around here every so often, as well as other interesting bits of old computer parts (I have an IBM 3274 Terminal Controller set up as a TV stand in my room. For only $10, it is a much cooler piece than the usual bits of overpriced furniture Goodwill normally gets...) I'm also wondering if this little honey could be used as a console for the Cromemco system... http://www.oz.net/~otter/gallery/Geek-Console.JPG Sorry. Can't remember what model number it is at the moment. It is way too heavy for me to move by myself so I can see the label on the back. :p As for the System Three; we haven't decided what to do with it yet. It doesn't have enough stuff with it to make it worth the hassles of auctioning (plus, without having an operational car at the moment, shipping would be an enormous logistical challenge.) If someone can come pick it up (Kitsap County, WA), I would be open to some sort of reasonable buy or preferably trade offer; especially if I could trade it for a Commodore PET (been wanting one of those ever since I saw one back in the old days on an episode of Buck Rogers, and later in the background in Kirk's apartment in Star Trek II: http://www.oz.net/~otter/images/scr-st2-1.JPG Anyway, enough incoherent babbling from me for now. Time for me to catch a bit of sleep. Later! -- Scarletdown P.S. If anyone is interested, I can send off an email to someone at my squadron Monday Morning to find out where that Cromemco System One was donated to.