[Coco] New Hampshire COCO readers.

[John E. Malmberg]

Can the members of this list that are near southern New Hampshire 
(Milford driving area) contact me at any of about the items below, and 
also on a more personal matter.

wb8tyw(at)qsl.net or malmberg(at)encompasserve.org.

Please do not forward this to other newsgroups or forums.

I am going to start purging my basement soon of things that I do not see 
a likely hood of using.  They have been there 6 years, and before that 
were in storage at my old location.

I have a lot of discrete components, some of them over 20 years old, and 
some of them still on circuit boards.

I have tried selling the circuit boards and components at ham-fests in 
the past, and no one was interested, so I would not be surprised if this 
gets any offers.

I also have quite a number of boxes of old magazines, including 73 
magazine, QST, and Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar, and some boxes of water 
damaged but human readable 80-micro.  This includes some old BYTE, and 
some other computer related magazines of old.

If no one wants this type of stuff, the magazines will start going next 
week to be turned into pulp, and most of the electronic components will 
be going to the landfill or other recycling center.

I need the space, and those magazines are taking up a lot of space.  The 
hardware components are also taking up space, but not as much.  The 
movers jumbled the hardware components together, and I have finally 
determined that I am never going to use them, even if I take the time to 
sort them out.  In their current condition, it is faster for me to buy 
new, than to try to find where I have one.

At this time, I am still keeping my COCO related stuff.

I also have a TRS-80 III/IV conversion with a defective double sided 
drive and bad 12V power supply.  This has all the compilers and a balky 
but possibly functional external 15M hard drive.  Which means to someone 
that wants to restore one, this would be very useful.  As this was a 
conversion, it has the original model 3 color.  Keyboard may have been 
modified to put the control key where I expect it to be.  I do not 
really remember.  This will all need to go as a single item.

Also a VT180 (ROBIN) VT100 + CP/M on quad floppies is one of the things 
leaving, and I think I have two TI99/4 with a few modules.

These systems were given to me by other hobbyists, so even though there 
might be some value to them on ebay, I do not want to deal with that 
process, or with shipping, but would prefer that they go to someone that 
will actually use them for something other than target practice.

Regards,

-John
wb8tyw(at)qsl.net
Personal Opinion Only