Latest Haul: TRS-80/Apple/Commodore

From: Rich Beaudry <r_beaudry_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Mon Jul 23 11:09:45 2001

Hello all,

On Saturday, I took a pleasant road trip to Coventry, RI (about 1.25 hours
South of me) to a school that was closing down to get some old computers. I
knew they had some interesting stuff, but had no idea what awaited....

None of this is rare (as far as I know) or anything, but it was a nice find
for me... Also, some more stuff is there, but I will not make it down for
another trip before they close on 07/31. I will post more information in a
separate message.

The haul was:

- 1 Apple IIc+ with external 5.25" floppy drive
- 1 Apple IIc composite monitor (the small green one on a stand)
- 1 Laser 128EX, with monitor, and external 5.25" and 3.5" drives
- 1 Apple color composite monitor
- Many disks of Apple II software, including DOS 3.3 and ProDOS disks, and
the "Introducing the IIc" series of disks
- Apple Assembly Language book by Don Lancaster (forgot the name)
- Apple IIe SAMS Photofacts
- Applesoft manuals

- 2 TRS-80 Model 4P (in nice shape, and working condition!)
- 7 TRS-80s, mixture of Model III and 4, some with no floppies, some with 1
5.25" and some with 2 5.25". Varying amounts of RAM. All appear to be in
working condition, though not great cosmetically
- 2 TRS-80 Network 3 Controllers (NO clue what these are... Anybody?)
- One device (I forget the name), with a "TRS-80" in the name, that has 16
connectors on the back, 16 LEDs on the front, and a rotary dial on the front
to select one of the 16 inputs. NO clue what it does... I'll get the
details and post later.
- MANY TRS-80 disks, including some original boot disks, SCRIPSIT originals,
and others.
- Some Nice condition TRS-80 manuals

- 13 Commodore 64 "breadbox" computers, many with power supplies and TV
switches
- 2 MSD "Super Disk" units (one w/ broken latch on one of the drives)
- 2 VIC-20s in original boxes (one with a brown computer cover in the box)
- Many original C64 and VIC-20 Educational Software disks
- C64 and VIC-20 manuals, Programmer's reference guides, books, etc.

Some of this stuff will not be staying with me. I rescued it to keep it
from the dumpster. I also told the principal that I would try to sell it,
and any monies would go to the school (my incentive for doing it is the
stuff I keep, plus I actually think this is fun!). I will post a separate
list of available stuff, and anything that doesn't sell will go to eBay....
But I'll give you all first cut at it... The format will be sealed bids,
accepted for some number of days, with the stuff going to high bidder.

Rich B.
Received on Mon Jul 23 2001 - 11:09:45 BST