On Friday 03 February 2006 17:54, Bruce Lane wrote: I was there last Saturday - the day Mike Quinn's "officially closed". I picked up a couple of nice SGI monitors - but there wasn't much else of interest to me there. Most of the same stuff has been around for the last 5 or 10 years - PCs, gears, old P/S, old test gear, etc. Most of us who have gone there over the years have picked over just about everything and already "gleaned" the good stuff. (I first went to Quinn's over 20 years ago when they were located at the Oakland Airport). So only go to the "'new' final sale" if you've been there before and know what you want. There was no interesting DEC. HP or SGI gear there - and in terms of vintage computers - only a few classic Macs, and a stack of SGI Indigo2's. Also lots of glass monitors of every ilk - and tons (literally) of parts - gears, motors, resistors, eproms, telephone switchboards, LEDs, old ISA controllers, etc.,etc. Wear your boots and gloves [especially if you go in the "employees only" back room] (as usual). I just chatted with Jay by email today - it doesn't look like he'll be there - so this must be a Maurice "event"... Lyle -- Lyle Bickley Bickley Consulting West Inc. Mountain View, CA http://bickleywest.com "Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"