Huxley
Well-known member
Okay, wow.
So, the other day, in my usual digging around on my local Craigslist pages, I found a guy up near Los Alamos, NM (about 2 hours north of Albuquerque, where I currently live) who'd posted about a batch of old computer stuff he had to sell - he was asking $25, but since I was willing to drive up, he was happy to just give it all to me for free.
Here's my very rough estimate of the contents of the 4 very large plastic bins I took from his front porch:
Apple IIgs with what appears to be a color monitor (10"?), 5.25 and 3.5" disk drives, keyboard and mouse - this just 2 days after I won a local auction for a IIgs! Arrgh, what timing!
Commodore VIC-20 (no power brick)
Commodore 128 (no power brick) - it's amazing - I brought this home on the same day I got out bidded on a C128 setup on eBay!
Tandy 486 system of unknown specs, with a Tandy-brand dot matrix printer
IBM PS/2 system of unknown specs
IBM PC Convertible with several add-on units (serial, parallel, printer, video) - no power brick
Atari 600XL - no power brick
Atari 1040ST - I think this one has a power brick, but I'll have to check
Mac Performa 6200CD
A pile of SUN-brand hard metal mouse pads
A huge mess of cables - serial, parallel, SCSI, who knows what else, and a bunch of odd networking cables and ethernet transceiver boxes
A huge batch of keyboards - some SUN, IBM, Apple, generic, and a few that I don't have any clue about yet
A collection from what appears at first glance to be some early 90's era HP server system - I've got a HUGE mainboard, a bunch of expansion cards with some type of edge connector I don't recognize at all yet (one of them seems to have a pair of 166mHz Pentium chips on it)
A TRS-80 Modem II - this thing looks bad-ass, with a bunch of 70's style metal flip-switches!
Wow, okay, that's it for know - I've got the day off tomorrow, so I'm going to start playing and digging some more - there's bound to be more cool stuff in there!
Whew.
Huxley
PS I just snapped a few pics of all this stuff laid out on my garage floor - here's the link: Click me!
So, the other day, in my usual digging around on my local Craigslist pages, I found a guy up near Los Alamos, NM (about 2 hours north of Albuquerque, where I currently live) who'd posted about a batch of old computer stuff he had to sell - he was asking $25, but since I was willing to drive up, he was happy to just give it all to me for free.
Here's my very rough estimate of the contents of the 4 very large plastic bins I took from his front porch:
Apple IIgs with what appears to be a color monitor (10"?), 5.25 and 3.5" disk drives, keyboard and mouse - this just 2 days after I won a local auction for a IIgs! Arrgh, what timing!
Commodore VIC-20 (no power brick)
Commodore 128 (no power brick) - it's amazing - I brought this home on the same day I got out bidded on a C128 setup on eBay!
Tandy 486 system of unknown specs, with a Tandy-brand dot matrix printer
IBM PS/2 system of unknown specs
IBM PC Convertible with several add-on units (serial, parallel, printer, video) - no power brick
Atari 600XL - no power brick
Atari 1040ST - I think this one has a power brick, but I'll have to check
Mac Performa 6200CD
A pile of SUN-brand hard metal mouse pads
A huge mess of cables - serial, parallel, SCSI, who knows what else, and a bunch of odd networking cables and ethernet transceiver boxes
A huge batch of keyboards - some SUN, IBM, Apple, generic, and a few that I don't have any clue about yet
A collection from what appears at first glance to be some early 90's era HP server system - I've got a HUGE mainboard, a bunch of expansion cards with some type of edge connector I don't recognize at all yet (one of them seems to have a pair of 166mHz Pentium chips on it)
A TRS-80 Modem II - this thing looks bad-ass, with a bunch of 70's style metal flip-switches!
Wow, okay, that's it for know - I've got the day off tomorrow, so I'm going to start playing and digging some more - there's bound to be more cool stuff in there!
Whew.
Huxley
PS I just snapped a few pics of all this stuff laid out on my garage floor - here's the link: Click me!