I've been contacted by a former software developer with extensive experience with the UCSD p-System on several platforms. He'd like to dispose of most of his equipment and documentation. I'd like to help him find a new home for it all. I'm not quite sure how to do that, but it might depend on who else is interested. Please contact me if you are. He is located in southern Illinois, USA. I am located in southern Wisconsin, about six hours away. I'd like his spare Terak 8510 system and a Cipher 9 track. There are two PDQ-3 systems. I am tempted to take one, as it is closely related to the Terak. These are LSI-11 with Western Digital microcode to run the p-System directly. They include 10 or 20 meg hard drives. They are circa 1982. I think they're rare. The only mention I find is on a UC-Irvine web page, although I've emailed with someone who worked at the company that made them (Advanced Computer Design?). One of the hard drives might contain some source code from ACD. He used these for software development. I've found references that say these systems were used to develop in Modula 2 and FORTRAN. They competed with the Sage. There's an Atari 1040 ST running the p-System. There are four or five 68000-based multitasking multiuser Pinnacle Systems (later Logic Process) systems. These drove 8 to 16 users on Wyse 50 terminals. They are circa 1983. One is the bigger unit with more horsepower and an internal tape drive. There's two Corvus Omninet drives, with various junction boxes, cabling and interface cards - perhaps for PC, Apple II and maybe Q-bus. There's a bunch of p-System books, newsletters, etc. as well as software. He was a USUS member. There's a VT 220 and several Wyse 50 terminals. I might want the 220. It sounds like there's lots of software going all the way back to a copy of Wirth's CDC compiler. - John