6 Jul
2000
6 Jul
'00
5:41 p.m.
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Mike Ford wrote:
Cool stuff that everybody wants:
Transwarp accelerator
Vulcan hard drive
Focus hard drive
Fast SCSI card
SCSI card
Workstation localtalk card for IIe
Add to that:
Apple //c LCD portable display
Makes trading very difficult with maybe half a dozen
items worth more than
$20, and handfull of rare items difficult to put any price on, and the rest
generally $5 or so depending on the marketplace. Add to that in finding any
of the "good" items, most people end up with boxes of the other stuff. How
and what do you end up trading? The only reason I cut loose of a couple of
my SCSI cards is that they sell for $100 and I clearly had more than I
needed.
I collect whatever //c's I can find for cheap because I'm standardizing on
them as my VCF utility terminal of choice (for taking attendee
registration information, keeping books at the consignment table, etc).
They're nice and self-contained, only needing a display (//c+'s would be
much nicer but they're harder to come across). I have around 10 //c's and
2 //c+'s.
I also take whatever free //e's I get my hands on. They'll come in handy
for something someday (maybe when Hans finishes the C64 super-computer
project we can do one with Apples :)
Sellam International Man of Intrigue and Danger
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