I guess it's Friday night brag time, so here is what I've picked up the past couple weeks: - Alpha-Micro AM1000E (x2 - one has a 16 port terminal i/f hanging off it's rear) - CompuPro System 8/16 (x3 - monster systems: 8085/8088 cpu cards, lots of RAM, lots of i/o, lots of disk space) - Mac XL (dang, hard drive spins but seems not to be working, but boots - Heathkit H-11 (pretty beat up and no docs or media, but I figure there's a bit of help out there) - Hewlett Packard 85 (cassette drive may be bad, or maybe it's the _one_ tape I have, otherwise it's nice) - Apple III (clean and mint) - Commodore PET 2001 (with original manuals plus about 50 other books) - Intel uScope 820 (8080 and 8085 "probe" modules and all docs - drool) - Nicolet Z80 experimenter bus w/lots of cards (Mostek modules and docs) - TRS-80 Model 4P (jittery monitor) - TRS-80 Model 12 (boots up, but I need a k/b) - PDP-11/23 (M8186) in a Plessey box w/lots of extra cards (hard drive supposedly loaded with RSX-11/M+, but I haven't managed to get it going yet) - HP Integral PC (heh, showroom beauty) - AT&T Unix PC (got the system a couple weeks ago sans k/b, but found that today) - Laser 128 - Vector Graphic MZ (Tons of boards and docs with this one) - VaxStation 3200 (has the VR290 but I need that funky cable. oh, and a drive loaded with VMS would be nice) Plus a couple hundred pounds of peripherals, books, and software for the above and other classic systems. Among the more interesting: - a Xetec Lt. Kernel "Host Adapter for C64/C128" Hmm. DB25 out. That sounds like fun. I guess I'll be needing some software to mess with this. - Zenix for Color Computer? - Cromix? AFAIR from old Byte mags this is a Unix variant for which processor? - A pair of S-100 books: "The S-100 BUS Handbook" by Bursky, and "The S-100 & Other Micro Buses" by Poe and Goodwin. - Some other cool books: "Computers Self-Taught Through Experiments" by Brayton, 1st edition, 1st printing - August 1966; "An Introduction to Microcomputers, Volume 1, Basic Concpets" by Osborne, 1976; "The 8080A BUGBOOK" by Rony, Larson and Titus; "A Hobbyist's Guide to Computer Experimentation" by Lenk. Many others along these lines. - TRS-80 Model II drive expansion box. Big box with 3 x 8" drive bays but only one drive installed. - A whole bunch of game carts I didn't already have for 2600 and TI-99/4A ;) With the backlog of stuff I already had, I've not been able to spend much time on this stuff. Obviously getting rid of the major appliances and furniture I'd been storing in my garage has made this sort of scrounging binge a bit easier on the lifestyle (extra space AND extra cash to play with)... -- mor(a)crl.com http://www.crl.com/~mor/tps