Hi Julian, I'd be very interested in this. I'm in Newport in South Wales, however I have family in Manchester, and my Dad works not far from Swansea so I'm sure we could work out a way of getting it to me. My website is http://www.micromuseum.co.uk Regards, Chris -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Julian Smith Sent: 24 June 2013 13:07 To: cctalk at classiccmp.org Subject: Free Stuff - Manchester UK I've been starting to trawlthrough my various big piles of miscellaneous / less interesting stuff that I haven't got round to doing anything with (or am ever likely to...) and have an Osborne 1a that did work ~6 years ago before it was consigned to a dark corner of the attic after an earlier clear out. From memory the monitor took ~20 seconds to warm up and work and there's also a missing key cap so it's far from a pristine, museum quality example. From my rather narrow perspective it isn't the most interesting or exciting of machines either. But it is free... Is anyone interested in it? If so, I'd prefer someone to come and pick it up rather than go through the effort of packing / shipping etc as I'm basically lazy and don't want to do much more than drag it downstairs and throw a disk in it to see if it still works. Collection may be possible from Bath / Swansea via one of my relatives if you can wait a month or two. Julian

On 24/06/2013 18:19, Robert Jarratt wrote: I'm pleasantry surprised there was any interest at all and I'll be responding shortly about that. My primary interests are pretty much anything Acorn, QBUS DEC or Sun. I'm hoping that part of the fun will be finding out what's actually in the 'less interesting* pile'... But the reality is the majority of it hasn't been touched for 10+ years and it won't be any time soon. So it's going. If anyone does actually want any of it and it's easy for me to post (e.g. no monitors...) or you can come round, drop me an email. I've been tied up with work & family over the last few days, so I've not had a chance to do anything with this but from memory qualifying stuff (or 'junk' as I'm regularly reminded) is ?10+ misc 5 1/4" PC floppy drives, ?5+ 'ST-506' / ESDI style PC hard drives of various capacities (probably working), ?10+ <2Gb SCSI drives (some in Sun enclosures or SPUDs), ?2 Tandy WP2, an unknown ?6502 SBC with FDC, a tatty Sun Blade 100, a Mac SE FDHD, low spec SGI Indy motherboard & XZ graphics set, a 17" grey SGI monitor, tatty MS-DOS hand-held, a 'rugged / mil spec' one piece ?386 portable with ?15 line monochrome LCD display in a roughly phone directory sized package, ?10+ misc SBUS cards, a NETRA T105, a shoebox or two stuffed with 30 & 72 pin RAM (some parity), ?2 VGA multi-scan monitors (?Acorn), a BBC B issue 7 motherboard or two & ?keyboards and a box or two of misc ISA/PCI cards. And very unfairly a low spec Microvax 3100 & BA356 and SUN IPC. Julian. *I should probably qualify this as stuff I've simply accumulated and won't miss. And to be honest really is mostly junk.

Hi Chris, Sorry it's taken so long to reply, but the Osborne has gone. Julian On 24/06/2013 13:48, Chris Long wrote: