On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Dan Stephans II wrote: I believe there is a section of the FAQ that outlines good places to find stuff, but here's a quick run-down of places: Thrift Stores Swap Meets/Flea Markets/Ham Fests Garage Sales Electronics Surplus Stores Scrap yards Computer recycling centers (usually found in larger cities)...ask them for the old crap they don't intend on putting back into schools, usually they only want anything that can run Windows 3.1 and above; anything else they dump Usenet groups: comp.sys.apple2.marketplace, comp.sys.atari.8bit, comp.sys.cbm comp.sys.tandy comp.sys.ti comp.os.cpm comp.sys.*.marketplace ...many others (next, dec, cdc...) local forsale newsgroups Ask around* Post ads in your local "penny saver" saying something to the effect of: "I want to buy your old computers! CP/M, S-100, 70s & 80s micros & minis" * A lot of times in talking to business associates I somehow manage to turn the conversation to my hobby of collecting old computers. I sometimes get stuff from people who go, "Oh, I have a XXX that I want to get rid of." I recently picked-up a mid-80s NCR all-in-one PC for free other times as well. Then they of course tell their friends and all of a sudden you've got people calling you asking you if you want such-n-such a system. Good luck! Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Historian, Programmer, Musician, Philosopher, Athlete, Writer, Jackass Coming Soon...Vintage Computer Festival 2.0 See http://www.siconic.com/vcf for details!

At 09:19 PM 2/26/98 -0600, you wrote: Re: where to find them. You guys should be down here in Florida. I find so many that I have to pick and choose. I left behind 4 AT&T 3B2s, a NeXt, an AT&T 6300, 2 HP Appollos and 2 HP 9000/300s yesterday. All of that was at a GSA auction at KSC. I did get a COMPLETE Commodeore Pet set and a Vax Station 3100 for Zane.

Gee, the best I can do on that note, is a 6 year old copy of Linux :^) Zane | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Adminstrator | | healyzh(a)ix.netcom.com (primary) | Linux Enthusiast | | healyzh(a)holonet.net (alternate) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | For Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | see http://www.dragonfire.net/~healyzh/ | | For the collecting of Classic Computers with info on them. | | see http://www.dragonfire.net/~healyzh/museum.html |

Well, I'm definitley not a Minix junkie, I haven't even had time to get around to putting it on one of my 8088's, but I think the current version is 2.0, which I think will run on an 8086/88 if you have enough disk space and a way to get all that stuff onto the drive. You would probably want a 286 to do anything with 2.0. For some strange reason, I downloaded Minix 1.1 to install(probably because it will fit on a bunch of 360k disks, but 1.1 doesn't do much, everyone told me to use 1.5). Try checking out the comp.os.minix newsgroup. BTW, is yowza(a)yowza.com a real address? Sounds funny to me... -JR http://members.tripod.com/~jrollins/index.html - Computers http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Lair/1681/ - Star Trek

On 27 Feb 98 at 20:49, John Rollins wrote: Toronto Atari Federation used Minix as one of the elements in a package that enabled ST users to access the i-net. Requires about 4 megs tho. It's since been superceded by easier programs. ciao larry lwalkerN0spaM(a)interlog.com