Moving Sale (SF Bay Area, USA)

[Jacob Ritorto]

Hey Seth!  I'd like to call dibs on the blue adm3a!  Will send a friend
over from HMB to pick it up at your convenience.  Will you reply pirvately
& let me know when's best and what's a proper tip, pls?

thx
jake

(fourfifteen)952-5372

On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 1:18 AM, Seth Morabito <lists at loomcom.com> wrote:

>
> Well, it's finally happened. I've bought a house west of Seattle, and
> I'm going to be leaving the bay area.
>
> First things first: I am NOT getting out of classic computers! I'm
> taking a nice little core collection of microcomputers with me.  That
> said, the move is going to be extremely expensive and I have a lot of
> stuff that I'm just not likely to ever get around to.  Liquidating
> some stuff could save me thousands of dollars. So, it's time to try to
> pass it on.
>
> Everything here is located in Fremont, California, very close to I-880
> and Decoto Road. It's in a garage for very easy access. Because of the
> craziness of moving, I'm very sorry to say that everything here is
> pick-up only. I cannot make the time to pack and ship. If you're remote
> and you'd like to get someone else who's local do some picking up for
> you, of course you're more than welcome.
>
> Anyway, I hate to do this, but it's time...
>
>
>
> First, the non-free stuff. I'd actually like some money for these. How
> much? I'll take reasonable offers. I'm not looking for eBay money.
> Seriously. Make an offer, the worst that could possibly happen is that
> I'll counter.
>
> - PDP-11/35. This is my semi-infamous restoration project that
>   consumed much of my 2012. I very lovingly restored the power supply,
>   backplanes, chassis, and front panel. The logic is almost certainly
>   beyond repair. It needs a new set of cards. This system is housed in
>   a full-height rack that has seen much better days. Includes a Diablo
>   Series 30 drive, ECCO paper tape reader (not punch), and a DSD 440
>   8" floppy drive. I'll throw in a big huge pile of 8" floppies.
>
> - PDP-11/53. This is a nice half-height DEC rack with a PDP-11/53 card
>   set in a PDP-11/23+ chassis, plus two working RL-02 drives. Will
>   include 10 RL-02 packs. This is a nice setup. It pains me more to
>   get rid of this than it does the 11/35, if I'm honest. (Drive heads
>   are currently parked and secured!)
>
>
>
>
> Now, the cheap and/or free WORKING stuff. Just make a token offer to
> help defray some moving costs and I'll be thrilled.
>
> - MicroVAX 3800. Nice system. Used to belong to Lockheed Martin and
>   once had Hubble Space Telescope pointing control software developer
>   accounts on it!
>
> - Two AlphaServer DS20e systems and 4 SCSI storage arrays. Marginally
>   classic, but come on, you know you want them.
>
> - TWO MicroVAX 3100 model 80s. Loud little beasts. Lots of small
>   SCSI disks. Ideal doorstops.
>
> - AlphaStation 200 4/233. Cute little desktop. Works great!
>
> - Sun SPARCClassic.
>
> - Sun SPARC IPC.
>
> - Assorted Sun keyboards / mice.
>
> - SGI Octane. It's a perfectly nice system. No keyboard / mouse. It
>   has texture RAM!
>
> - SGI R5000 Indy. Also no keyboard or mouse, sorry. At least these SGI
>   systems are PS/2.
>
> - A C-One FPGA system. This is not technically classic, but it is
>   neat. These were sold as a re-targetable FPGA system to emulate
>   Commodore Amiga A500 among other systems. Had a minor following in
>   the early 2000s before the project dried up.
>
> - Heathkit H-89. Had to do some minor power supply repair to get it
>   working, but it works great now. Hard-sectored floppy drive. I'll
>   throw in 6 hard sectored floppies. That's all I have!
>
> - Tandy TRS-80 Model 4.
>
> - Tandy Color Computer 3, still in the box!
>
> - No-name serial terminal. It's always good to have more of these,
>   right?
>
> - Sharp PC5000
>
> - TWO DEC Rainbows (one has a bad power switch), plus monitors and
>   keyboards.
>
> - Panasonic Sr. Partner luggable computer.
>
> - Packard Bell 286
>
> - 2 or 3 TI Silent 700 terminals. (I'm keeping a few, but I have an
>   absurd number of these things)
>
> - Execuport 4000 printing terminal.
>
> - DEC LA100 printing terminal.
>
> - 90% working blue ADM-3a terminal. Needs some slight logic repair,
>   should be an easy job.
>
>
>
>
> Finally, the stuff that DOES NOT WORK. I just want this gone. Please
> take it. Any of these could be a fun project. If you don't take it, it
> will go to WeirdStuff Warehouse where they'll do horrible things.
> I especially
>
> - KayPro 10.
>
> - Another MicroVAX 3800. The non-working version of the one above.
>
> - DEC Professional 350. Dead video.
>
>
>
> That's it. If you happen to come over and we're going through stuff
> and I find something else I should get rid of, you're welcome to it!
>
> -Seth
>