12 Oct
2002
12 Oct
'02
9:31 p.m.
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Robert F. Schaefer wrote:
A Mattel Aquarius. It's not something that I would
have normally picked
up, but it seemed to be reasonalbly complete, CPU, mini expander,
printer, tape deck, RAM cart, and a half-dozen carts. Most in original
boxes, if not packing. After reading all the "coming soon"'s and
"under
development"'s, all I'm really missing is a few carts and the 16K RAM
cart (the one I've got is 4K). Alas, the thrift store I found it at has
succumbed to the parts-are-worth-more-than-the-whole, and each piece was
priced seperately. I haven't added up the total yet. :/
That's an incredibly nice setup. It entails everything I had at the time
I sold my Aquarius to fund the purchase of my first Apple ][+.
A lot of the stuff that Aquarius promised never came out. However, I did
just buy a modem off of eBay. And I missed (by a couple hundred dollars)
an incredible auction that include the ultra-mega-rare Aquarius disk drive
(3" mechanism) and 4-color printer. If I had more money I would have bid
more (it ended up being something like US$350). There are only two
Aquarius disk drives that I know to exist.
I do have the even rarer Aquarius II, but I really want the disk drive
(and I know a certain someone on this list who has the 4-color printer ;)
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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