Spring cleaning wave

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_netwiz.net>
Date: Wed Apr 28 03:52:55 1999

Must be a wave of spring cleaning going on, during a visit to a nice local
salvage yard I noticed much movement was going on. Turns out next week a
big truck will pay a visit and ALL the old stuff is going. Former items of
endless dickering, were now "flexibly" priced so I bought a trunk load of
junk. With of course a few bits of treasure.

Central Point copy card floppy controller, (2) 4869 external floppy drives,
(is a 4865 3.5" drive interesting?), an extender card (about 6x8 inches I
guessed it might be S100?) with a ribbon cable to proto board and wire
wrapped sockets, 2/3 of a shoebox of 5.25 floppies for a Toshiba T100 CP/M
computer, basket case stylewriter 1200, and misc stuff.

Big iron just rolling into the yard, 4 of those baby rack chassis, one a
MicroVAX II, and the rest each holding 3 or 4 HP 7945 computers all
daisychained together with that weird HP skinny centronics looking
connector. A monitor, keyboard, and a couple HP mice also present, so I
assume its a working system. What the heck is it? I looked one or two of
the 7945 boxes over, and didn't learn much. I think they also said they
were 9000 series 300, but most only had the weird HP connector on the back
(are they just drives or what?).

TU81 tape drive also present, but I don't know if related. This new stuff
isn't going on the truck next Tuesday, but a lot of other stuff is (mostly
386 and older chassis, broken monitors, odd monitors (bits of an Omron
computer, a Next slab, etc.) Everything is in South Orange county CA BTW.
Received on Wed Apr 28 1999 - 03:52:55 BST