25 Jun
2001
25 Jun
'01
7:58 p.m.
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Michael Maginnis wrote:
Wow - are the related materials that hard to come by?
I did ask the
"computer" guy if he had anything more and he looked at me as though I
was speaking a rare dialect of a long-dead language. After a few
minutes of protocol negotiation, he explained that all he did was
"plug them in and turn them on - if they work, I price them and put
them on the shelf". The Apple this card came from was "dead", so he
stripped out all the cards and put them out for sale. Everything else
(manuals, floppies, everything) went to the compactor - he didn't have
a way to test any of the floppies that came with the unit, so out they
went... >sigh<
Did you take some time to dispell this guy of his ignorance? You could
make things much easier for you in the future by establishing a good
working relationship with him.
He did let me root around their back room for a few
minutes - scored a
NeXT cube for a dollar.
Very nice. Sounds like a very nice thrift shop. I had one like that in
my area that would regularly turn up something nice at least once a month
but they closed down :(
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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