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

From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Date: Wed Jul 23 04:11:00 2003

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Jason McBrien wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know how "rare" these things really are? I've got one
> > laying around somewheres. Works too, but there's a hole drilled into
> > the side so it's not exactly museum quality.
>
> Not very. Perhaps "uncommon", but just so. They were made in the
> thousands, perhaps tens of thousands. If you go to enough school garage
> sales you may just come across a stack or pallet of them.
>
> No, I don't have one. I've never even seen one in person (I don't
> think). But they're not rare.

At one time I used one on a daily basis. I've not come across too many in
the surplus market. I'd like to find one eventually, but there is no way
I'm going to pay ebay value for one...

I do have one of the matching drives in storage, so maybe it will attract
the rest of the system ;)

I also used to use a clone type Apple II at one time, but I don't remember
who made it. Its case vaguely reminded me of an Apple III. It had two
built-in 5.25" floppy drives in the upper section of the case below where
the monitor sat.

-Toth
Received on Wed Jul 23 2003 - 04:11:00 BST