[rescue] Report from Laurel, MD trip and a note to those of us *selling* i tems on eBay...

[Big Endian]

>On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 03:02:29PM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
>>  Hello all,
>>  Well I spent an enjoyable afternoon/evening in Laurel, MD with both Mike
>>  N. & David McGuire, and I thought I would drop a note to the list relating
>>  my impressions of what I saw:
>
>I'll correlate with notes about the visit Amy and I made while on our
>honeymoon back in April.  Maybe Dave's house can become list-mecca?
>Everyone has to visit it once in their lives? 8-)
>
>>Dave's house is amazingly small, for what is is in it. Dave has 3 
>>Crays, which
>>is really too many, becuuse after the second, the "gee-whiz" factor is gone.
>>;^)
>>Dave also has all his hallways and corridors lined with "prizes" - a well
>>  organized eBay purge would turn up some good money for Dave I suspect,
>>  but I believe he cherishes his "prizes" too much to part with them.
>
>True.  I was like OH MY GOD ITS A GOLD MINE and amy was like "aw, shit,
>i'll never get him to leave". 8-)
>
>>I honestly lost count the number of times either Mike or Dave would pause,
>>bear-down, and make themselves feel better (at the expense of all near-by).
>
>You know you're among friends when.. 8-)
>
>WHen I was hanging out with Dave and Mike and James after an ISPCON party,
>I was sitting on the curb, and accidentally let one fly.  Dave looks at me,
>"Did you just fart?"  I was like "excuse me".  They then proceeded to
>rate it, if I remember correctly.
>
>>  Then we went to the warehouse. Oh my, the warehouse....
>
>Oh yes.  I will be back there one day.  I still need to haggle with
>Dave for a NeXT box from his pile of them.
>
>>  If anyone is looking for some piece of hardware that was popular10+
>>  years ago, this is the place to be!
>
>I about cried when I saw the Icom ham radio gathering dust - did you see
>it?  Not belonging to dave, but property of one of his friends - and
>this was a $2K radio.. 8-(
>
>>  I got to see *two* BB&N imps
>
>The best part of the warehouse, IMHO.  Someone should un-pallet them and
>take detailed pictures.
>
>>  a metric butt-load of ELC/SLCs, Mac bits galore
>
>I also need to hit up Dave for 7600 parts/pieces.
>
>>  and a large array of Next cube monitors & laser printers.
>
>RAIN?  Redundant Array of Inexpensive NeXTs? 8-)
>
>  > It was a good weekend all around!
>
>Oh yeah - Amy and I were only able to hang out with the boys for 2-3
>hours, but man, what a trip.
>
>Did you see the PDP8 that dave acquired recently?  He still needs to
>send me pictures, because I was originally gonna buy it and then
>shuffled it his direction (for a "might as well be free" price, compared
>to PDP8 ebay prices)...  8-) BLINKYLIGHTS!
>
>Bill
>
>--
>Bill Bradford
>mrbill at mrbill.net
>Austin, TX
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I'd like to check this stuff out.  I live in centreville VA and I'm 
into old and new computers.  I'd like to get into rescuing old 
sun3/sun4 vme systems if I can find some and parts for them.
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