Any AS/400, twinax, old networking/telecom gear collectors near Roanoke Va 24012?

[Frank Helvey]

Greetings!


I have a collection of older AS/400 parts, including what should be a complete
system (I believe its a 9406-200?), plus several twinax printers and some terminals (including one or two color ones), plus some twisted-pair token ring networking bits and some older telecom gear.

I'm going to try to sell this stuff, but the larger parts (the AS/400 is in two racks, a "9331 Disk Unit" and a "9406 General Purpose" rack both of which are about 6' tall), plus the 6262-T12 printer are so large and bulky that I'd prefer to not have to put them on a pallet to ship them anywhere.  I've thought about parting them out instead or just hauling the lot off to the local electronic recycling company, or finding out if there's anyone on this list that could pick them up.

I have two other IBM racks of the same basic type as the AS/400's that have been stripped of the power strips and interior foam; these have a little spot rust on the outside but if someone needs one or both of them they'd be available.  They're deeper than most rail systems I've seen can accommodate so using them for rackmounts requires extensions to be made or purchased for the rails.  I also don't think they have their doors anymore.

So - is there be anyone more or less local to me that would be interested in the large bits?

Is anyone on the list needing baluns or twinax cables?  I've got lots of those and if you need some I would be willing to ship them prepaid for a small fee to cover my gas to get them out.

I have the "MULIC" tape for it around here somewhere but I parted with
all of the other tapes some time ago - mostly to Red "Bear" Stricklin
on this list.  It does have two EMC raid arrays which I presume work.

Caveat:  I'm an AS/400 ignoramus.  I can provide descriptions and pictures of things but what some of this does is beyond me.  It all should work, to my knowledge it was working when I purchased it, but I do know that the AS/400 was connected to a more modern smallish AS/400 and part of the system I have was no longer in use.  

Contact me off-list if you're interested for a list.  I hope to have a website up sometime soon with a list of the parts I've got.

-- Frank
 
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