MIPS, 3B2, PPC available Central Illinois

[David H. Barr]

I'd be very very interested in the 3b2 stuff, especially if it's the
sort with it's software still inside.

-dhbarr.

On 5/11/05, Dan Linder <dlinder at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> <delurk>
> 
> A fellow had a garage sale recently with a lot of classic hardware,
> and we got to talking about classic computer resources online, and I
> offered to post whatever he might have left-over to the list in
> case anyone is interested.
> 
> He's got:
> 
> >A MIPS Magnum 4000PC.50
> >(2) AT&T 3B2/310 with many (!) boxes of documentation
> >Motorola PPC 801
> >A Cray Amber terminal
> >(2) SCSI1 External DAT drives.
> >misc AT era PC cases/motherboards
> >borken laser printer
> >Epson LQ1100 dot matrix printer
> 
> I don't know any further details about this stuff, and he's mostly
> looking to just get rid of it. If you have serious inquiries and
> really want one or more items, I can pass along questions.
> 
> He'd rather see this stuff go to a nice home rather than to the
> recycler, but he's under some pressure to get rid of it this week.
> 
> If you'd like something off the list, here's my preference list:
> 
> 1. Pick up in Champaign/Urbana, Illinois. If you want something and
> can pick it up over the Summer, I can store it at my storage place
> until you can stop by, before August please. Make an offer, no
> reasonable offer refused. He's looking for garage sale money here,
> nothing over $20. I'm justmiddle-manning for the sake of the
> community and preservation.
> 
> 2. Meet me at the Dayton Hamvention. I'll drag items to the
> Hamvention and you take them from me Thursday night or Friday.
> Hey, if you want something off his list, you get a guaranteed
> good bargain at the Hamvention without even scrounging!
> 
> 3. We could ship if you're really interested in an time. We'll
> fix pricing at 125% of the packing/shipping costs, which should
> work out about the same as shipping + what he was asking at the
> garage sale.
> 
> Like I said, I'll be passing all the money back to him; I'm just
> acting as a go-between to save some nifty machines that I just
> don't have time to work on.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dan
> 
>