Date   : Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:46:34 +0100
From   : robert@... (Rob)
Subject: happy bunny

OK... preliminary inventory...  it's all still in the car, so not gone
through it properly yet.

2 E01 + E20 filestores
2 Masters
1 Model B
2 CUBs
2 'Arc' monitors, model TBA
several external floppy drives
Peartree Music 87 box
Grafpad tablet

(Very big school markings on them - etched glass, BIG spray painted
logos, soldering-iron applied lettering..   Don't you just love kit
that Stockport MBC had their hands on...)

Then there's a pile of smaller boxes containing, among other things:

at least two lightpens with some form of adapter box
couple of modems
several plastic boxes with coloured sockets & ribon cables on them,
presume for user port interaction...
a logitech mouse, probably for an arc (wonder if it will work with the
A3000 I've got upstairs)
a box of various TTL chips, ROMs, econet modules and two loose
solidisc "s.w.expansion" - weirdest ram board I've ever seen!
Vertical!  With instructions!!
Several boxes of original software and manuals and instructions for things!
Another box of boxes of discs..
Bag of misc cables, look like econet drop leads, mostly..
Several Econet manuals...
And there's still a box I've not looked in yet as is under something else.

It was, as suspected, all rescued from a school - pulled back out of a
skip no less!!  Nice bloke; said he had intended to set up an econet
at home but never got around to it, and now they are moving to
somewhere smaller.  It's all been in the back of the garage for the
last 18 years...

So.. Question ... what's the safest way of checking these over and
powering them up?  I know the master battery packs will almost
certainly need sorting out - I'm just a bit wary of letting all the
magic smoke out of the capacitors, given these have not been used for
so long.

I'm especially pleased to see the software, manuals and all the odd
and ends - computers are two a penny, but it's the stuff that goes
with them that never usually turns up..  And the filestores, of
course!

Now to find somewhere indoors to hide it all...

Rob