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

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Wed Jul 23 15:08:50 2003

Hey Toth!

   I have a black Bell & Howell Apple II but no drives. I can give those
drives of your's a home if they need one. :-)

    Joe

At 04:21 AM 7/23/03 -0500, you wrote:
>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 - 15:08:50 BST