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In a message dated 6/26/2015 2:45:35 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
jws at jwsss.com writes:

That is  pretty sad to hear.

The item is the notebook / diary detailing the  restoration of their 
PDP8/s (or I think it is of theirs).   Undoubtedly donated by someone who 
may have thought it would remain  there.  I suspect unless the items are 
going to organizations, they  will show up soon on ebay.

The buyer in this case showed he had done  90% of his recent business all 
over items from there, and if you look at  their queue it is easy to see 
why.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/221805321988  
<https://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fitm%2F221805321988
&usd=2&usg=AFQjCNH-hrxHjmQnJE9doH0QtvgjGgzvmg>

I  just hope it's not one of the psychos on ebay that one has to deal 
with  with a lot of items, but it probably is.  I'm going to go back thru  
the AGCW feedback given to see what else they got, but I suspect its not  
a collector.

Any word where such items as the PDP8/s and such  stand?  If the recent 
example of the Apple 1 donation is any  indication the people that are 
doing the selling are probably not getting  the best for their dispersion 
of the collection.  In the Apple case  200k is way under what it probably 
could have fetched, and whoever got it  (and probably whoever sold it) 
make out like  banditos.

thanks
Jim

On 6/26/2015 12:27 PM, Brendan Shanks  wrote:
> Yep they started selling/giving away their collection few  months ago: 
>  http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?t=16729439
>
>  Brendan
>
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:58 AM, jwsmobile  <jws at jwsss.com 
> <mailto:jws at jwsss.com>>  wrote:
>
>
>     Does anyone have access to  the museum that was at Austin Goodwill?
>     It seems to  be going out on ebay as we speak. Also there is a
>      bidder for the good stuff that has vacuumed up 90% of the stuff,
>   so I'm smelling some sort of thing going  one.
>
>     They have a PDP8/S and they just sold  off a significant artifact
>     related to that, which  is what has me wondering. I'm going to call
>     and see  if anyone has a story that way, but wondered if anyone
>   here has any info too.
>
>     There  are a lot of nice things going out which could have
>      explanations as being recent donations, but not the 8/s  artifact.
>     It seems to be custom related to the  8/s.
>
>     thanks
>      Jim
>
>