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

[Bill Bradford]

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

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX