Someone from my former home town has a bunch of MicroVAXen stuff that's going to, he says, go to the scrapyard if no one expresses interest. Any of the Bay Area crew care to negotiate with this guy? Please reply directl to him. Thanks! -=-=- <snip> -=-=- Path: Supernews70!Supernews60!supernews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!newsfeed.internetmci.com!204.156.128.20!news1.best.com!newsfeed.slip.net!news.slip.net!not-for-mail From: Paul Leondis &lt;leondis(a)slip.net&gt; Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Subject: microVAX blowout in Bay Area Date: 21 Dec 1997 20:46:53 GMT Organization: Slip.Net (http://www.slip.net) Lines: 45 Message-ID: &lt;67jv7t$m61$2(a)owl.slip.net&gt; NNTP-Posting-Host: slip-3.slip.net X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 970124] Xref: Supernews70 comp.sys.dec:58516 Time to let go of some more treasured junk. I have enough miscellaneous parts to put together about 3 working microVAXEN, with many spare parts left over. The hoard includes but is not limited to: (3) BA23 cabinets, (2) w/ floor-standing tower setups (~5) CPUS (1) monochrome monitor for QVSS graphics system (1) color monitor for QDSS graphics system (history buffs! this is the system that X was developed on, (i think!)) (2) 1.2Gb SMD disks (lots) 80Mb RD53 MFM disks (3) TK50 tape drives lots of the typical controllers, memory, et cetera. various versions of Ultrix and VMS etc. ---------------------------------------------------------- Here's the deal: highest bid takes all the stuff. I'm not really expecting anyone to pay much for this stuff (but you can if you want:-)). If someone would trade me a 486 or better clone box (or even motherboard) that would be fine. Or, if you could come up with a fixed-scan PCI card, i'd keep just the color monitor. Or i'd trade the whole mess for a 17 or 19 inch multisync monitor, but i'm not gonna hold my breath on that deal. If after a week or two no one has expressed any interest at all, it will go to a scrap yard. ***NOTE: I like to collect old stuff myself, i've got tons of it and i sympathize with the obsession, but PLEASE, PLEASE do not send me mail from Nova Scotia or Britain saying could i ship the stuff to you it's a pity to see it trashed. I'll only deliver it local to the Berkeley California area, and then probably only if you can sweeten up the deal for me as outlined above. Thanks much, Paul Leondis leondis(a)slip.net 510-649-0993 phone Berkeley, CA -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, SysOp, The Dragon's Cave BBS (Fido 1:343/272) kyrrin2 {at} wiz<ards> d[o]t n=e=t "...No matter how hard we may wish otherwise, our science can only describe an object, event, or living creature, in our own human terms. It cannot possibly define any of them!..."