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