Fred, et.al. I was afraid of that ;) On a more serious note, there are a large number of collectors here. Many have different areas of interest. What might be VERY important to one, could merely be "interesting" to someone else. Recently I have been in contact with a number of local (Long Island, NY) firms that deal in older equipment. Most of them handle Telecom, PC's and maybe a few Sun's. I talked with owners/managers and left business cards (magnetic and stuck to various file cabinets etc in their offices!). I have also made phone calls and send both e-mail and snail mail to other possible sources. The more people who know that I am serious about this item, the better chance I have of obtaining one. Also I will pass on any information relating to items which I am not interested in (or simply unable to acquire). Since there is a fairly large contigent of people who are intersted in the PDP-8, any "open" post of "Hey I just found one who wants it..." will likely lead to rioting. It is my hope to get my interst well known so if anyone finds something (that they are not capable of taking), they can contact me. David V. Corbin Dynamic Concepts Sayville, New York 631-244-8487 -----Original Message----- From: Fred N. van Kempen [mailto:waltje@pdp11.nl] Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 11:10 PM To: David V. Corbin Subject: RE: The PDP-8, PDP-11, VT100 and Tek rescue On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, David V. Corbin wrote: The reference to the credit card was to Michael's beef re not saving the VAX 7000, my friend :) --f