Sunburned neck, aching feet, another fine Spring morning spent outdoors. Getting up earlier than I do most work days, I traveled 60+ miles each way to Sandwich, IL for another round of the junk-hunt. Today’s haul:

– Kaypro 1 computer (actually their last machine, not their first)
– Informer terminal
– 1940s-era Western Electric 302 no-dial phone in (an) original box (not sure it belongs to this phone)
– Rotary Princess phone in *black*
– A bunch of XLR cables
– A bunch of random Mac and phone cables and parts
– A couple handy parts boxes with a lot of unknown stuff in them
– Western Digital WDXT-GEN2 Plus ISA MFM hard drive controller in-box
– Radio Shack CPA-1000 dialed number recorder
– Three new Black and Decker tool batteries that I’ll take apart for some project
– I’m sure there was some other stuff, but my feet hurt and I can’t see the rest of the pile from here

The fairgrounds at Sandwich, IL

Nearly everything acquired over the weekend at VCF Midwest 4.0:

– Commodore Pet 4016 Computer
– Commodore Model 8050 Dual Drive Floppy Disk
– Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 1 Computer and Realistic cassette drive w/cables in “serious business” travel case.
– Matching Radio Shack TRS-80 Video Display also in travel case (from a different vendor than the CPU.)
– TRS-80 Mini Disk 5.25″ external floppy (with dust cover!)
– TRS-80 Line Printer II (not really a line printer 🙁 )
– Wang 360 Calculator central processor
– 3 Wang 360KT Calculator terminals (to go with a 300 terminal I already had)
– An Anderson Jacobsen acoustic modem!
– Not pictured: a big ol’ tub of MFM hard drives and Hard Cards, an HP plotter transparency kit, some HP plotter paper (shrinkwrapped,) a bunch of RS/Tandy catalogs and other TRS-80 literature

All in all an excellent haul, though the Wang setup stands out as a “never thought I’d find one” piece. I will update if/when I get it working!

Here’s a link to a short video I made of Pat’s Vax 11/780.
And here’s one to a Flickr photoset.

Oh, and there’s this, too:

The reloading of mostly Mike's stuff.

VMS process monitor on the Vax 11/780.

Sellam Ismail’s head appears virtually before us for a Sunday morning talk.

IBM 3420 drives

"Scotch egg:" deep-fried egg-wrapped pork sausages.

~20 retrocomputerists + beer = ?

DEC Vax 11/780 with VT-101 terminal, RM02 drive and Decwriter terminal.