Amiga haul in Topeka

From: Gary Hildebrand <ghldbrd_at_ccp.com>
Date: Fri Apr 12 23:13:42 2002

John Foust wrote:
>
> At 02:47 AM 4/11/2002 -0500, Gary Hildebrand wrote:
> >I made contact with an employee of Kansas Computer Recycling Corp. in
> >Topeka.
> >Well they did have them. I went home with 15 Toaster cards, 5 Flyer
> >cards, 18 Ethernet cards (extremely rare and pricey), 4 68040 accerator
> >cards, and a plethora of other goodies.
>
> Must've been the remains of NewTek's Topeka office.
> They'd left for Texas many years ago. You didn't say
> what you paid for them... :-)
>
> - John

Approximately $2 per card. That doesn't include the two A2000s, one
A2000 mother board, 12 megs of brand new 1 meg 30 pin SIMMS, a new
Kickstart 3.1 ROM and a 33c93 SCSI chip. Also got several Apple 3.5"
drives off the scrap pile, and a commodore 64 for keyboard parts. If I
add all that, I guess the cost per card is about $1 to $1.50 depending
on how you count your beans.

Hope you're sitting down while reading that, and on oxygen. I still
pinch myself thinking it is a dream . . . .

Yeah, I thiught it was the dregs from NewTek, but one A2000 has a
Washburn University (also in Topeka). If it was Newtek, why would they
need ethernet with their Toasters??? I'm doing some research, and I'll
let the list memebers know exactly where they came from, once I retrace
the trail.

Gary Hildebrand
St. Joseph
Received on Fri Apr 12 2002 - 23:13:42 BST