What a weekend!

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Wed May 3 14:57:43 2000

   Cripes, what a weekend! I went out Friday and the first thing I found
was a huge Helium Neon laser. It's a Spectra Physics 125 and the thing is
over six feet long! Also picked that National Semiconductor Multibus
computer that I told everyone about. Also picked up a Fluke 1722, a HP 9816
computer and a big box of 8mm computer tapes on the same day.

   Then went to an auction of space stuff with a friend of mine on
Saturday. Big mistake! We've been moving stuff ever since. I've been
leaving by 6:30 AM and not getting home till close till midnight. We ended
up with four large work benches, 30 feet of 12 foot pallet racking and
about 35 pallets of stuff! We got some cool stuff though, a complete Apple
II, an Apple III with an external disk drive, two Olympia ETX-II computers,
a Terak computer, a pile of HP terminals, a complete DEC Rainbow and more.
Also got a a VERY complete HP 1000 including a 7905 disk drive with the
disk pack still in it. Also found an entire gaylord of manuals for it. And
that's just the computer stuff. Also got all kinds of electronics parts,
test equipment and space stuff. Even got parts from a lunar lander and a
gyro from a Saturn V. Also got a UV spectrometer. Way Cool! Other goodies
include 50+ factory software tapes for the HP 9845, a strange old HP MODEM,
nine HP 85 interfaces and a blue Intel paper tape reader to go with the
rest of my Intel MDS system.

   Joe

   PS does anyone have any instructions or a catalog listing or other
information for a Tektronix J20 (or 7J20?) Photo-Spectrometer????? It's a
plug-in for the Tektronix 7000 series scope mainframes. We got all three
pieces of the electronics for it but didn't get the lense for it. It might
be in the stuff but we don't know what it looks like.

   Joe
Received on Wed May 03 2000 - 14:57:43 BST