New Finds

From: James L. Rice <james_at_megaeasy.com>
Date: Thu Jun 29 17:00:58 2000

One ex-wife is all any of probably can afford.

At 04:39 PM 06/29/2000, you wrote:
>I don't often make great finds around Hartford, but a local HS had a tag
>sale, and for $20 I came away with:
>
>2 Mac Plus w/ 2 "long" and 3 "short" keyboards, 1 numeric keypad (less the
>')' key), all working
>3 matching 20 MB SCSI drives, also working
>5 mice for same
>1 Mac LC
>3 Apple Keyboard II (1 cable, 2 kb's missing 1 key each, and only 1 ADB
>cord)
>1 "limited Edition Woz" IIGS, working
>2 Mac 12" RGB Displays, working
>1 Apple composite color monitor for the IIGS, working
>1 Apple IIe
>2 Echo IIb boards & speakers
>3 3.5" Apple drives, condition unknown
>3 5" Apple drives, condition unknown
>2 Heath-Zenith 8088's, from which I scavenged the 2 ST-225 drives (working),
>1 working HD controller, 2 5" floppies condition unknown, 2 floppy
>controllers (ditto), I/O boards, AST combo board, the CPU's and memory
>chips.
> AND
>1 IBM PC Portable - one of the floppies was not working, so I replaced it
>with a HD and WD controller from one of the Zeniths - works great!
>
>If I had half the space some of you describe, I could have had 20-30 IIe's,
>monitors, printers, and some 286 PC's. Of course, if I did that I would
>also have a second ex-wife!
>
>Bob Stek
>Saver of Lost SOLs
>
Received on Thu Jun 29 2000 - 17:00:58 BST