[rescue] Need to get rid of my sun collection

[Dan Moisa]

I'm also interested in contributing in any way - trucking costs,
intermediate storage, etc. as well as taking anything from the sun3 era or
earlier. I'm in California and could arrange some transfers if more ppl are
interested here.

Dan.

On Sat, Jan 18, 2025, 09:20 silcreval via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:

> Hi Robert,
>
> I would be interested in any spare VME cards for the 6x0MP as I have a few
> of these machines which I'm slowly restoring.
>
> In particular CPU or memory cards in any condition.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ian
>
> > On 18 Jan 2025, at 16:52, Robert Reif via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > I'm a retired hardware/software engineer and I have a large sun
> collection I need to get rid of to make space because my recently
> handicapped daughter and my two grandchildren will be moving in with me.  I
> would like to donate it or give it to collectors.  I don't have the time to
> itemize it and sell it.
> >
> > I have multiples of most sun4 and sun4m systems ranging from 690MP,
> 670MP, 630MP, all the lunch boxes and pizza boxes. I have many boxes of
> spare VME boards, sbus and mbus modules and spare motherboards. I also have
> a few 64 bit systems. Probably around 50 systems total. I also have
> monitors, keyboards, mice, cables, external CD and tape drives including a
> 9 track, multiport serial, printer with spare cartridges, books, manuals
> and software.
> >
> > I also have an Intel blue box development system from the 80's (minus
> keyboard), 2 data general 8 inch rack mount SMD hard drives, a Kaypro
> computer and a lot of other miscellaneous stuff.
> >
> > I also have a lot of hardware data books from the late 70's, 80s, and
> 90s.  These will go in the trash if no one is interested.
> >
> > All this has been sitting untouched for over 20 years.  I planned to
> play with it again when I retired but that never happened.
> >
> > I'm in the process of moving some of the stuff to a storage unit.
> >
> > I also have an sgi collection and a large CompuPro S-100 collection that
> I might be willing to sell in the future.
> >
> > I gave Dave McGuire my small DEC collection about 20 years ago when he
> lived in Florida.
> >
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