KC/Topeka prowling with Mr. Rigdon

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Sat Jun 1 11:59:42 2002

Hi All,

   I just back from Kansas. To tell the truth I wasn't expecting to find anything out there but the pickings were a lot better than I expected. I meet up with Gary Hildebrand and he showed my around. Our best source was in Topeka. I got a Bell & Howell black Apple II, I spotted SIX! Zenith Z-110s, a TI-990 with blicken lights on the front panel, a TRS model 1, several Compaq P-IIs and a P-III, parts of an original IBM Display Writer. Gary found and bought an Ozzy OCC-1 and several Commie 64s and peripherals in their original boxs and some Vic 20 and c-64 cartridges. I also found a pile Amiga cards that Gary bought. Gary hadn't even been looking in the baskets of cards that they had pulled, but I'll bet that he does from now on! I just got a message from him and he says that the cards are really special so he's really tickled with them. I also found a number of odd Apple II cards and split them with Gary. He and I both got an Echo card which I think is a speech synthesizer, he got a card that appears to add
 LocalTalk and Mac type serial port to the Apple II, I got a card with a cigarette pack sized external box that appears to be some kind of external I/O interface. It's made by Don Johnson Developement Equipment and says Adaptive Firmware Card on it.

   Sorry to take so long to report but something happened to my interent connection while I was gone and it took a couple of days to straighten out. In addition, I stayed an extra day and TRIED to vist the Harley Davidson Assembly plant in KCMO but didn't make it there.

   BTW has anyone here tried to carry an old computer on the arilines lately and had to go through the WHOLE security checkout? I did and it was "interesting". :-(


   Joe


At 08:21 PM 5/28/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Returned to my last gold mine in Topeka; Joe and I found some nice
>stuff. With his sharp eyes he found more Amiga memory & SCSI cards for
>me. He went home with some S100 memory cards, and a B&H (black) Apple
>II. I came home with another C64, two 1541 drives, another Ozzie I with
>modem, and miscellaneous Apple II cards and documentation.
>
>Surplus Exchange(in the west Bottoms) had the goodies cordoned off; I
>believe they are throwing out the vintage stuff and rearranging the
>salable PC stuff.
>
>Had a find time killing the day. My thanks to Joe and his sharp eyes;
>what he found really made my day.
>
>Gary Hildebrand
>St. Joseph, MO
>
Received on Sat Jun 01 2002 - 11:59:42 BST