The usual mumbles

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_netwiz.net>
Date: Fri Apr 30 17:10:30 1999

What a sight, 75% of my favorite salvage yard lined up like troops for
dismisal, all headed for a big truck on Tuesday. I made a final scrounge
yesterday, looked at the bottom of piles not looked at for, maybe a long
time, and roamed the heap screwdriver in hand getting the tidbits I could.

Bad news
The Vax station II and HP 7945 I thought would be safe since they arrived
just last week are part of the deal and going. Much of the odd working bits
will go in the dumpster for lack of understanding.

Good news
Who says there is anything good about this? ;) Who knows, maybe lots of
space will attract a lot of newer stuff.

Found, didn't get, but wonder about anyway.
Long narrow metal drawer full of punched cards dated Nov 1968, looked like
maybe a program and associated data. IBM 4865 3.5" external floppy drive.

Found, did get, now what?
Someone asked me about AST processor modules, so I plucked 3, (2) 386, and
(1) with a empty green zif socket labeled Overdrive Ready. I left behind
the gutted Next Color Slab, but took the black keyboard. Will the Next
keyboard work on a Mac, it looks ADB?

I am running a little slow.
One Decus the big joke was a story from one of the early speakers about a
user complaining about the Vax running slow that week. Well, to all the
people I should be getting back to on stuff, I am running a little slow
this week, AND my brain is showing a lot of parity errors, so REMIND about
stuff I am supposed to do for you if I haven't done it yet.

If I get an insane rush of energy from all the cold pills I am taking I
plan to attempt the Santee swapmeet (10 miles east of San Diego, first of
hamfest swaps in Socal each month and a real JUNKFEST).
Received on Fri Apr 30 1999 - 17:10:30 BST