Hi, folks. Yes, it's me. Finally felt comfortable enough to just settle down and resubscribe. Scrounge-2000 was quite a trip. I learned a number of things along the way, including (though not limited to): * If you're driving from the Bay Area to Washington, and you want to buy giant blackberries from the local berry farms to take home, also invest in a Peltier-effect portable cooler box. * Don't ever rent a Ford Explorer for a long trip again. The things are utter gas hogs! * Pigeons can indeed do "The Splits." Now, as to what I got... Test equipment and RF-related stuff was my main emphasis on this trip, and I did succeed pretty significantly in that regard. Two Wavetek function generators (a 154 and a 178), and a rubidium frequency standard from Tracor (anyone have the manual for a 308A?). I didn't do badly in the (classic) computing department either. I snarfed a pair of Micropolis full-height nine-gig drives at $5/each, an Atlantic Research 'Interview 7500' datascope for $45, and some non-classic replacement parts for my main workstation. I seem to have developed a taste for collecting serial data analyzers. I now have two from ARC (Interview 4600 and 7500), and a pair from DigiLog. I wonder what else is out there? On that note, does anyone have any documentation at all on either of the Atlantic Research units? I've not had a lot of success finding such. The crown jewel of this trip has more to do with radio than computers, but I'll mention it anyway: A Cushman CE-6A service monitor, working electrically but only fair cosmetically, for $425. For those of you who know service monitors, this was still quite a deal (and for those that don't, you can E-mail me and I'd be happy to explain). The only thing I really needed to do with it was rebuild a kludge some other tech had designed in to replace the (formerly) 5 MHz OCXO with a 10 MHz version. Said tech had used an ancient 74H101 as a divider, and had simply stuck the chip in with double-sided foam tape and not taken advantage of the original octal socket at all. I corrected all the above, and I'm pleased to say it works just fine. So, what have I missed? Flame wars? Discovery of a PDP-1? Anything? ;-) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies http://www.bluefeathertech.com // E-mail: kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com Amateur Radio: WD6EOS since Dec. '77 "Our science can only describe an object, event, or living thing in our own human terms. It cannot, in any way, define any of them..."