What a day! I've been on the go non-stop for over 12 hours but I've made some GREAT hauls! First I went to tiny hamfest in a nearby town. Sold a LOT of coax cables there even though I hadn't set up. People were asking for cables and I had a bunch of them in the car trunk that I was going to take to a friend that owns a surplus store so I kept going out to the car and bringing back cables! Then I meet a guy and got to talking to him about hobbies. When he found out that I was interested in vintage computers he asked if I was intersted in a Sage computer. (You KNOW what the answer to that was!) Then he said he also had a couple of Grid laptops in search of a new home. Then asked if I wanted an Apple. I said no but then he added that it was one made for business. I asked if it was an Apple III and he said yes! Then found out that he also had a HP 9845 that needed another home! I found out that he lived near where I was supposed to be headed so I made arrangements to meet him later in the afternoon. Then went to Melbourne and stopped at an electronics scrap yard that I frequent. I quickly found a TI Silent 700 terminal in a transit case. Then checked a second transit case and found a "Micro 5000" made by Harris Corp. I opened it up and whatta ya know! an intel 8008 CPU, eight 1101 RAMs and a bunch of 1702 EPROMS! Definitely a keeper!!! Searched through the scrap bins and found an industrial looking chassis that has the same computer in it. Wow! My first 8008 computers and TWO in one day! Found one more but it was almost completely gutted but I did get some more 1101 RAMS and some early 70s TTL ICs. (yippee! spare parts!) The industrial chassis are marked "50-0300 Simulator" but it looks like the same board in a different package. These look like some kind of data logging equipment. In the same pile I also found a Televideo 910 CRT Terminal Installation and User's Guide, a Silent 700 Operating Instructions book and some other docs. Looked around some more a found a buttload of the twist lock power plugs like those used on the old Tektronix equipment and some Intels. Needless to say I left happy. Next I went to the surplus store and sold him a trunk full of cables that I had picked up somewhere else for nothing, $$$$ :-) (Don't worry, he'll get it all back in sales. I'm down there at LEAST once a week!) While there I found a half a dozen keyboards with the switchs and keepcaps like those used on the Intel and a lot of other old SBCs. The same boards also have some nice gold and purple M6820s and 6821s. Also got a phone call while I was there from an old friend that had a bunch of old computer stuff that he'd found and he said he was going to be in my neighberhood later today. (Aren't cells phones great!) Also while there I found a package of Davong Multi-OS for the IBM PC and XT. I've never heard of this before. Does anyone know anything about it? Left there and went to see the guy that I'd meet that morning. He gave me a ***MINT*** Visual 50 terminal, a MINT Sage II computer with ALL the docs, a working HP 9845B, a stack of manuals for the 9845, a couple of HP catalogs, a promise of a pile of early Byte magazines when he can dig them out, two Grid laptops, a service manual for the HP Vectra LS-12 laptop computer (HP sent it to him by mistake. It's probably one of those service books that HP won't admit that they ever made.) He still "owes" me the Apple III and a second set of docs for the Sage :-) FINALLY went home and got to sit down for the first time since 6:30 AM! Then called up the guy that was visiting over in my neighberhood and went to see him. (Switched cars first since the first one was overflowing!) He gave me an AlphaMicro 2000M along with some other odds and ends. OH! and some original disks for my Rubicon CPM machine!! I found out that the company that he works for used to be an AM dealer/service center so I made him promise to look for any AM manuals, parts, etc left around there. He also knows of an AM that was JUST taken out of service and is complete and 100% functional. He's supposed to check and see if he can get it for me. That's it! Now I just have to unload two cars full of computers and find a way to sneak it all inside before the OL finds it! Happy Hunting! Joe