If you ever do find a SUN out there, I can hook you up with a Type 5 keyboard and 3-button mechanical mouse if you're willing to pay to ship do with (usually don't run them with graphics heads). As well, if you're willing to wait "indefinitely", I may have a few SPARCstation 4 machines available... the units are actually in my parents' basement... not sure if they are still there or the next time I will be going to Kalamazoo (I did tell them off-handedly that they could scrap them when I was there about a month ago picking up the bulk of what remained of my stuff) but I could always save one from the skip. They're kind of like the 'little brother' to the SS5. Best, Sean On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Dan Gahlinger <dgahling at hotmail.com> wrote:

I have a sparc 5 with a bad harddrive. it is otherwise working. I have display, keyboard and a believe mouse. The display is B/W, though. Last time I played with it, I could access open boot. It may need a little cleaning as well. It is yours for the cost of shipping. I'm in California. Dwight

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Bob Rosenbloom <bobalan at sbcglobal.net> wrote: Not that I'm anywhere near you but are the VAXstations part of the free pile also?

Hi Bob, Are there any old marketing brochures etc in the pile as I would be interested in adding anything to our on-line collection regards Mark On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 12:36 AM, Bob Rosenbloom <bobalan at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

On 6/26/2014 5:11 PM, Mark Brennan wrote: Might be. I have not looked through all of the boxes. If I find any, I'll set them aside. Bob

On 06/26/2014 04:36 PM, Bob Rosenbloom wrote: I drove down to Bob's place on Friday afternoon. Bob was very welcoming, and is a very pleasant fellow to chat with. My deepest thanks to him for making this equipment available. Unfortunately I was delayed by heavy traffic at several points on the way down, so I didn't have as long as I would have liked on-site. Bob asked me to reply to the list noting which things I had removed, which I will do below. Hopefully this means fewer email messages to Bob and/or the list asking: "Hi, is thing X still available?" But please note that there's so much stuff that after I left you'd hardly notice that anything had been taken, and due to lack of time very few of the boxes were checked. So, things I removed Friday afternoon (note that the Sun-3/80 pizza box was already gone): - Sun-4/110 and stand - One each of SPARCstation 1, 1+, 2, and 5 - Several Sun VME boards ("SCSI 2", MCP) - Two bare Sun-3/60 mainboards - One bare Sun-3/80 mainboard - SunOS 3.5 for 68020 on 5 QIC tapes - One Sun 711 box - Keyboards: Sun Type 5, two HP-HIL, one AT&T 7300 (several to many different keyboards left, including one sporting a Sequent logo in style of HP 700/22 terminal, if not HP-HIL) - One HP PA-RISC workstation model 712/60 (two left) - One Hitachi DK515-78 ESDI drive (still sealed, 2003 receipt, but box a bit squashed and one half of shock indicator triggered/red) - One DEC TZ30 tape drive - One box of approx. two dozen 2400' 9 track tapes - One sealed carton containing four new Flip 'n File drawers for 8" floppies Here are some noteworthy items that were still left: - Two Solbourne deskside/pedestals, one has what looked to be a factory OS/MP CD taped to it - One had several 6U VME cards fitted (don't recall for the other) - An open box held several spare cards, topmost featuring a SuperSPARC CPU (so, Series 6 K-Bus CPU card?) - At least two Solbourne-branded keyboards - Many SPARCstation 1's and 1+'s in assorted configs - Sun Ultra 10 in unknown config - Another Sun-4/110 CPU stand - Another Sun 711 SCSI disk box - Two VAXstation 4000 VLCs - Several other VAXstations, e.g. 3100 - Several small, early IBM POWER workstations - Two more HP 712/?? workstations - Maybe two dozen HP CDs, including HP/UX sets (v9, v10.20) - More keyboards of various types - At least one more ESDI drive (per box label) - Many 9 track tapes - Between one and two dozen QIC tapes, mostly Sun distribution media - Several boxed Solaris dist/media sets - Several large boxes of random cables - Some SCSI hard drives of various kinds There you have it. Worth the time, if you're local and so inclined. --Steve. PS - Bob also has a new, tiny, adorable golden retriever puppy. And if you take the back roads through the hills and redwoods to get there, it's really quite beautiful.