On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Michael Maginnis wrote:
> Wow - are the related materials that hard to come by? I did ask the
> "computer" guy if he had anything more and he looked at me as though I
> was speaking a rare dialect of a long-dead language. After a few
> minutes of protocol negotiation, he explained that all he did was
> "plug them in and turn them on - if they work, I price them and put
> them on the shelf". The Apple this card came from was "dead", so he
> stripped out all the cards and put them out for sale. Everything else
> (manuals, floppies, everything) went to the compactor - he didn't have
> a way to test any of the floppies that came with the unit, so out they
> went... >sigh<
Did you take some time to dispell this guy of his ignorance? You could
make things much easier for you in the future by establishing a good
working relationship with him.
> He did let me root around their back room for a few minutes - scored a
> NeXT cube for a dollar.
Very nice. Sounds like a very nice thrift shop. I had one like that in
my area that would regularly turn up something nice at least once a month
but they closed down :(
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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Received on Tue Jun 26 2001 - 02:58:31 BST