30 Jun
2001
30 Jun
'01
1:51 a.m.
Wednesday of this week I went to a school auction and came away 3 new in
the box Apple II WorkStation cards, apple number A2B2088 dated 1987.
Two are still sealed and the one that had been open had Ramworks III
card by Applied Engineering inside also. I had to watch them pass (for
no bidders) on 100's of Apple II's, apple floppy drive, apple monitors,
some TRS80 model III's, pc stuff. I do not have the room to store all
the stuff that they will be trashing. You could buy a lot for $1
(sometimes the lot would have over 100 items in it), the prices were
right but just too much stuff.
30 Jun
30 Jun
3:17 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John R. Keys Jr." <jrkeys(a)concentric.net>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 9:51 AM
Subject: New finds at a school auction
Wednesday of this week I went to a school auction and
came
away 3 new in
the box Apple II WorkStation cards, apple number
A2B2088
dated 1987.
Two are still sealed and the one that had been open
had
Ramworks III
card by Applied Engineering inside also. I had to
watch
them pass (for
no bidders) on 100's of Apple II's, apple
floppy drive,
apple monitors,
some TRS80 model III's, pc stuff. I do not have
the room
to store all
the stuff that they will be trashing
Where was this located I'm still looking for an early Tandy?
3:46 a.m.
Apple Valley, MN Dist 196 back of the Admin. building
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Kenzie" <KenzieM(a)sympatico.ca>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 10:17 AM
Subject: Re: New finds at a school auction
----- Original Message -----
From: "John R. Keys Jr." <jrkeys(a)concentric.net>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 9:51 AM
Subject: New finds at a school auction
Wednesday of this week I went to a school auction
and came
away 3 new in
the box Apple II WorkStation cards, apple number
A2B2088
dated 1987.
Two are still sealed and the one that had been
open had
Ramworks III
card by Applied Engineering inside also. I had
to watch
them pass (for
no bidders) on 100's of Apple II's, apple
floppy drive,
apple monitors,
some TRS80 model III's, pc stuff. I do not
have the room
to store all
the stuff that they will be trashing
Where was this located I'm still looking for an early Tandy?
2 Jul
2 Jul
10:48 a.m.
Wednesday of this week I went to a school auction and
came away 3 new in
the stuff that they will be trashing. You could buy a
lot for $1
(sometimes the lot would have over 100 items in it), the prices were
right but just too much stuff.
Sad but true. Half the time the stuff isn't palletized correctly, and
everything on the bottom is squeeshed (not broken, but say all the metal
panels on the apple II's bent, keys off etc.). In the past I have taken the
time to scrap out whole pallets, but ONLY when I can see some examples of
decent contents poking out the back of the computers.
Last time I went through two pallets, and took away about a grocery bags
worth of cards, mostly that I now would not keep any more of. What made it
worthwhile were about a dozen or so nice cards, 3 high speed SCSI, some
workstation cards, larger ram cards, and 3 or 4 very clean units, one of
which had an internal hard drive.
What made it work was that I was able to pillage the pallets on site, ie
take what I wanted and leave the rest on the pallets stacked as I found it.
The only other option I would be agreeable too is to completely scrap the
units I didn't want, with access to a dumpster for the cases.
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