At 17:17 15/05/99 +1, Hans wrote: Yesterday and today I "lived" inside the pavillions of Forli' expocenter where every year take place the Easter Hamfest. I have also picked a Compaq Portable II at 26 Eu (abt.27 U$D) It's a 8086 luggable machine with CRT -> VERY HEAVY! I've also picked: -WISE WY 3216-40 (@ 15 EU no monitor)It's a 386 with the processor and the RAM mounted in two different ISA cards, linked thru a upper connector. The keyboard is the classical WY 160 grey terminal keyboard with mmj connector. The system has a nice LCD retro-illuminated display and a big Megnetic Peripherals MFM (noisy) disk that reached the edge of his days. -C=ommodore PC 20 III (@ only 13 EU, no monitor) mint conditions 3,5 fdd probably a 286. -Some printers (bought not as vintage machines) - HP 320, HP520 (both @ 57 EU) - 2x Epson FX850 @ 35 EU each (they were used by REUTERS somewhere) The man that sold me the Wyse has also a Mannesmann Tally 8 bit optical tape reader @62 EU. I saw a very similar device inside a frontpanel of a automatic plasma welding machine as a numeric controller. I have taken a picture with my digital camera and I will put it on a webpage someday (I just started a HTML/Frontpage course this week) The reader was new inside its carton box and the man told that he still have 15 available. Another couple of yummy think I've seen where a Sinclair ZX 81 and a TIMEX 1000 The bad new where the prices (please seat safetly): 150 EU the first :( and abt. 220 EU the second!!! :o snip! BASIC "handeld"? can you explain more about that? you mean the P.O.S./BANCOMAT small units with thermal printer? In case you like that kind of Oilvetti design, it's possible to contact many wharehouse near Ivrea that stocks also new machines, E.G. the TE550 teletype machine that I've bought new @ 92 EU while 3 years ago it was sold to the National Postal Service @ abt. 2500 EU!! ;D Ciao Riccardo Romagnoli <chemif(a)mbox.queen.it> I-47100 Forl?