Free items available

From: Bill Richman <bill_r_at_inebraska.com>
Date: Sun Feb 24 00:11:44 2002

I'm cleaning out some stuff I had stored in the basement of a rental
property I own, and while some of it (like a couple of 50 gallon trashcans
full of old PC cards and miscellaneous circuit boards, dead or dying VGA
monitors, and a couple of rusty old printers) went to the dump, I still
would like to find a good home for the following items. Note that unlike
Sam, I _don't_ have a ton of packing material around, and don't really
have the time right now to deal with wrapping stuff, so if you want
anything, please be prepared to either pick it up in Lincoln Nebraska in
the next couple of weeks _or_ pay Mailboxes Etc's standard rates. The
stuff:

Summagraphics BitPad II - clean, working, with all cables, manual, pen
(maybe a puck - don't remember for sure) power supply and original driver
disk (5.25")

Beehive Micro B1 serial terminal - was working last time used (2-3 years
ago). Missing one key (the "Local" key, maybe? Nothing critical.)

Large brown and yellow serial terminal marked "ii". Keyboard and display
are separate, attached by a hardwired cable about the size of my thumb. I
believe it worked when I fired it up about 5 years ago, but don't know
much about it.

Hazeltine 1000 terminal - was working several years ago. Stopped
abruptly, and was shelved without testing because something else was
available to use. I'd guess it might be simple to fix, but... YMMV.

3 or 4 Panasonic HHC's (handheld computers). These have some insurance
illustration ROMs installed, but I think you can run BASIC on them if you
can get a set of the proper ROMs. One or two small matching thermal
printers, about half the size of a cigar box.

Box of assorted Radio Shack Color Computer cartridge blanks (I think with
boards included; you can put your own ROMs on them.) Also in this box is
what I believe to be a floppy drive controller cartridge for the CoCo.

IBM PC-XT 286 chassis and cover. Don't know if the motherboard is
original or not, but I can check if you care. It says "IBM PC-XT 286" on
the front; otherwise it looks just like an XT chassis. It's the only one
I've seen.

Assorted IBM CGA & EGA monitors - unknown condition. If you can use any
let me know and I'll try to pick a working unit for you.

Box of assorted IBM PC and XT motherboards. Some missing RAM and/or CPU.
Probably 10-12 motherboards. Unknown condition.

There are probably some other goodies that will come to light in the next
few days as digging continues. If so, I'll post again. If you want any
of this stuff, e-mail me. I reserve the right to limit quantities per
person if a particular item is in high demand.
Received on Sun Feb 24 2002 - 00:11:44 GMT