a little more info (was: going soon...)

From: Bill Yakowenko <yakowenk_at_cs.unc.edu>
Date: Fri Nov 19 14:42:43 1999

I've now got a little more info about those machines in Woodbridge VA.
Here is an excerpt from the e-mail:

> If you have one or two people that are serious about this, that would be ok,
> but maybe not a dozen.... I looked around a bit on Friday and the DEC is a
> PDP 11/34, there are several old IBM (and other ) pc's, printers (atleast 2
> NEC spinwriters and other Oki, epson and Lord knows what else) and boxes &
> boxes of old software. Boxes of old boards.... just a plethora of fun, sorta
> like going thru Grammas attic...

Unfortunately, it sounds like mostly PC stuff. And he does not want to
deal with a dozen different people.

So, I'd like to choose two designated information-collectors to meet
at the warehouse (or factory, or whatever it is) and make a list of
what's there. If these things are really going for free, we'll want
to work out a way of avoiding conflicts, so nobody feels cheated. I
suggested that this guy may want to take offers as a way of resolving
it, but I don't know if he'll do that. If he does, I recommend
bidding _low_, since he wasn't planning to make money out of this.

I expect he will choose a date in the first weekend of December for
viewing the heap. (He will be out of town this weekend.) If you want
to volunteer to be on the info-collection team, let me know. If I get
more than two, I'll choose by rolling dice. If a chosen person has
to back out, I'll roll the dice again.

Also, after this, I will be sending only to the list of people who
have expressed an interest, not to the entire classiccmp list. If
you want to be kept informed, and are seeing this only through the
classiccmp mailing list, you need to let me know to add you to my
own list of interested people.

        Cheers,
        Bill.
Received on Fri Nov 19 1999 - 14:42:43 GMT