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From: Merle K. Peirce <at258_at_osfn.org>
Date: Tue May 15 21:46:36 2001

The last 3 weeks have been a bit busy. We recieved a very nice B series
IBM AS/400, plus docs. A System 36 PC is also promised later.

We picked up an abandoned Wang VS-85 system in Wells River, Vt. BNo
power in building so everything had to be broken down with a trouble
light on a long extension cord. 3 CDC 9766 drives, one for parts I
think, plus the cpu, an 8 inch archiver and some unknown bits. A nice
find was an Apollo MSD cabinet cabled into the system. We also found a
new type of Wang terminal, the 2866, which we had not seen before.

We visited Syosset, NY to pick up a Datamaster that Rich Cini gave us,
and this morning receieved a frantic e-mail about some DEC equipment in
Danvers. The owning company was transferring some of its operations to
Texas, and we were given what amounted to a small DEC computer room -
platters, tapes, platter cabinets, a CDC 9762 drive, a micro-Vax, a
PDP-11/53, and a 3-cabinet PDP11/83, plus a large number of orange and
grey manuals.
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