some old cruft, mainly with defects , still overpriced... that was always the problem at halted. they always thought their test equipment was made from solid gold.
old multimeters with 31/2 led displays ( very old Hp, the one with their own nanoprocessor in it) , some keithley 175 , old tek analog scopes (22xx or 24xx series , not familiar with tek model numbers) some power supplies with analog meters.
Main interest would be their surface mount parts. 1$ for a reel of resistors... i grabbed a bunch of through hole ic's , transistors and diodes mainly as spares for test equipment i have. things like 7805 7808 7812 and the negative variants. i grabbed national semi parts. vintage 1990's. some transistor sin metal can like 2n2907 2n3904 . 1n914 and a bunch of the 1n zeners. some power diodes that are now obsolete but in use in the HP E36xx and E361x series. stuff for my fluke and keithley meters.
i basically grabbed the service manuals for any equipment i have that uses thru-hole, made a list of all diode's transistors and ic's and spent a good two hours digging .. got about half of it. spent 45$ and have enough spares to repair tenfold of the number of machines i have. it'll last the rest of my life if i should fry one (which is doubtful.. they are nearly indestructible apart from when they develop capacitor problems. i snatched a bunch of the nichicon and rubycon capacitors for those supplies as well.
it's getting harder and harder to find some of the parts. and whatever little is out there pulls exorbitant prices... 12$ ebay for a transistor that originally was like 2$ ... and they are used on top of that !
anyway , i got the important bits. i'm confident enough a 7805 will still be around in to220 20 years from now. that irf044 fet in to2 ? not so much... and there's no substitute. same for some of the special darlingtons with built in bias resistors. no replacement possible