Bay Area: IBM 4341 and HP3000

[William Donzelli]

So what was the guy like?

Did he completely deflect any opinions on the condition? Did he
acknowledge the mess?

--
Will

On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Guy Sotomayor <ggs at shiresoft.com> wrote:
> I had planned to.  Unfortunately the condition of everything was even worse
> than what Lyle had described.
>
> In addition to the water damage (chassis rusted on the CPU and at least one
> control unit), it was hard to see what all was there because of all of the
> junk (tables, A/C condensers, random other *heavy* junk) all piled *on top*
> of the CPU, terminals (a heavy table was being supported by a number of HP
> terminals...when I tried to move the table to get a better view of stuff you
> could hear things "crunch").  I did get enough stuff out of the way to at
> least glance at the 4341.  It was really sad.  3 major cables had been cut.
> It looked like a side panel had been removed and what ever was plugged into
> it was not visible (may have been there but with out a major mining
> operation it was hard to tell).  After about 20 minutes I thanked him and
> left.
>
> He had said that everything was operational before being put into storage.
> It looks like they just grabbed, cut and generally abused everything even
> before it went into storage before receiving the additional indignity of
> significant water damage.
>
> It's basically just scrap at this point.  Very sad.
>
> TTFN - Guy
>
>
> On 1/9/15 8:19 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
>>
>> Take pictures!
>>
>> --
>> Will
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 11:15 PM, Guy Sotomayor <ggs at shiresoft.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm the one who's coming out tomorrow.  ;-)  So it won't be going for
>>> scrap.
>>>
>>> TTFN - Guy
>>>
>>>
>>> On 1/9/15 5:25 PM, jwsmobile wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 1/9/2015 10:43 AM, Bob Rosenbloom wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I believe these are the same ones advertised a year or so ago.
>>>>> Lyle and I went to see them and found a storage building piled
>>>>> to the ceiling with stuff. It was impossible to see what was actually
>>>>> there, though what could be seen had heavy water damage and
>>>>> looked to be in bad shape. At the time he was asking $5000 for
>>>>> it all so we just walked away. Might be a lot cheaper now.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bob
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Friday, January 9, 2015 10:27 AM, Jason T <silent700 at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Not mine, not near me, not known to me:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/sys/4837367667.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>> I talked to the owner for quite a while tonight and got some
>>>> information.
>>>> He is very interested  in moving it and is sending photos.  He said
>>>> someone
>>>> is coming to take a look at it  tomorrow in Freemont.  I will post the
>>>> photos he sends me tonight.
>>>>
>>>> I hope someone buys it for other than gold.  I am not set up to address
>>>> this sort of a deal myself, and am passing the info along to who may be
>>>> able
>>>> to.
>>>>
>>>> I told him about cctalk and ibm vintage lists, so if you are on that,
>>>> that
>>>> is the secret handshake as far as what I told him, vs. a scrap dealer.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Jim
>>>
>>>
>