LEAST valuable collectibles (was: Apple II boards

Careful now! ... Current printers won't work properly with any of the pre-ECP computers of the '70's, will they? Once IBM started fiddling with the Epson version of the Centronics interface, the "old" types were orphaned. My old Ampro won't even talk to a current (post-1985) "Centronics" printer since it doesn't support all the signals that those guys expected to see. I had to disconnect several lines in a cable just to get a late-'80's printer to work at all with the old Ampro Little Board. Current generation monitors won't work with the old NTSC-compatible computers either. You have to have the old-style NTSC monitor, or a TV with a video input. Those old LEEDEX or BALL monitors are really scarce these days. If you want an authentic or even authentic-looking system, you've got to have the right sort of monitor. Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin(a)xenosoft.com> To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 10:55 AM Subject: LEAST valuable collectibles (was: Apple II boards