Vintage hardware in Los Alamos NM

[David V. Corbin]

>>> 
>>> A CC of cards, paper tape (unused) including DEC factory fanfold.
>>> 

DEFINITELY interested in the paperr tape iff some is avail!

>>> 
>>> Random piles of some DEC modules. I cannot ID these; two 
>>> plstic handles on human end, cardedge on the buss end. 80s. 
>>> RAM boards. Some new-in-boxes (but those could of course be 
>>> "return for repair" after module swap.)

No numbers or other marks on the plastic handles?????
 
>>> CCs of HP, TI calculators. We earlier found complete sets 
>>> of working HP25's with card readers complete with 
>>> bomb-crater calc software on magstrips (utterly 
>>> non-classified; it's a standard physics calc).

If a TI-59 is there......
 
>>> Keep in mind this stuff is scattered ALL OVER THE PLACE on 
>>> towering shelves in a 50,000 sq ft ex-supermarket. It's out 
>>> of the weather, but it gets COLD UP THERE in the winter, so 
>>> things like wirewrap are suspect at best. 

Don't get lost!!!!

>>> I can assure you you won't find an undiscovered cache of 
>>> working minis up there, but there's a LOT OF MISCELLANY.

PDP-8's have been known to show up in VERY strange places <grin>
 
>>> Please drop my name when you go -- it's no ego for me, but 
>>> Ed knows me and I told him I'd refer people up there, and 
>>> you're likely to get a better deal. Plan on spending a day 
>>> there, or better yet, two days.
>>> Seriously, I've been going there since 1994 and never get 
>>> to see it all; it grows monthly and his assistant Frank, an 
>>> ex-lab nerd and artist, has done an amazing job of 
>>> organizing and extracting crap. 

Wish I could get there, but I am on the wrong side of the country....