I think some photos were redundant, but I tried to take pictures of as much as I could.
Yeah, loading up the trailer was f**king MISERABLE. I had to contend with 90%+ humidity and temps of 80-95 degrees during several thunderstorms - this building had NO air circulation. Couple that with a even a milder case of hyperhidrosis, and yeah - heat stroke ruins your day. That's why I posted a picture of a cooler. Got smart and packed some light snacks, water, Body Armor and straight unflavored Pedialyte - and spaced all of them out.
I really had several motives in mind - I obviously collect this stuff and have since high school. But my primary business is also reselling this stuff, so I added some things to my collection, got a bunch of stuff for resale (I actually spent about $7000 with the guy who was running things in the end, excluding my time, hotel stays, diesel fuel and storage totes, and made that money back in a few months), and saved lots of things from the dump. I saved either a Sun ELC or SLC from getting trashed (it was in the trash pile because of MASSIVE broken plastic and supposedly didn't power on - I haven't powered it up yet, but that might be something I bring to VCFSW to sell), the chassis for a MIPS (he sold the boards, but left the case, which I saved (who knows what condition it's in as it's outside and tarped the last three years) and hard drive that's since been removed and put into dry storage. Let's see - documentation for lots of rare/obscure systems. Unusual cables, several Intel InBoard 386 cards (and other 8088 upgrade cards) for $2.00 apiece, etc. Got a steal on a DEC 4000 VLC along with two other DEC items I sold - $100 in total. The 4000 VLC I'm keeping (it feels like a SPARCstation IPC in speed, but it's a cute little machine). TONS of CRTs as y'all can see. I might post photos of them on here at some point, as I'd love to sell the CRTs between $25 and $75 each (saved some BNC as well as what I felt were obscure CRTs). Got tons of 5151 and 5153 CRTs with various degrees of case damage, but unknown if they power on. I'm trying to think what else. The software room (room with lots of boxes scattered all over the floor) - I ended up picking through for things I thought was worth saving, and in the end, ended up getting about 98% of it (with the bulk of it being free). Picked up a bunch of old luggables that I think set me back $200 or so? Some Columbia Data Systems, Corona, Compaq Portable (the original), some II's, some III 286's (with plasma screens), Zenith, etc. We're three years later and I'm STILL going through things, photographing and listing on ebay or finding things to complement my own collection. And here I thought Computer Reset was a goldmine (I picked up an Option/370 from CR that went in my 5170 AT - cool, but otherwise useless).