FS: RARE black Bell & Howell Apple ][ Plus with drives

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Tue Jul 22 12:49:01 2003

> I agree with Sellam (get the record books out) *grin*
> I keep seeing them listed on ebay as "K-RAD K00L RAAAARE Black Bell & Howell
> Apple"... sheesh... while I do not have one, I have seen lots and lots of them
> both in the wild and in collectors hands. They don't seem particularly rare to
> me.

Yep.
The schools were saturated with them.
Besides a couple of trivial differences to help them withstand classroom
abuse, there was an issue of purchasing.
Hell & Bowell was an existing line item on every years budget (for AV
stuff), so ordering anything from B&H was trivially easy, whereas ordering
a "COMPUTER!" had to go through permission from "district data processing"
AND "purchasing" had never heard of, and didn't want to do business with
some "tiny" startup named after a fruit. Ordering IBM was easier with
"purchasing", but still incurred the obstacles with "district data
processing".

Ordering a black apple was easy. just sneak it through in the AV budget.
Received on Tue Jul 22 2003 - 12:49:01 BST