Depending on where you are ... Business Depot here
in Canada still sells
the Apple cables as does the Black Book company. I think BD is Staples in
some parts of the States as well as Canada.
I think I'll try OfficeMax - There's one about 10 miles away.
Try your local elementary school for the printer.
Trade your experience
or technology expertise for it.
<g> They treasure their Apples like gold. Every room has a //c or ][, they
even still have a few TRS-80's. They haven't stepped up to Macs yet.
Having them subscribe to this list may ba a good idea - The computer lab
consists of 40 Tandy 1000 TL2's. In the Ambridge school district, they
won't let a piece of computer equipment go until it either won't turn on, or
smoke starts pouring out of it.
The High school has a Mac Classic that has the case held together with duct
tape because someone knocked it off the table. The picture is crooked on it
now, too (I think the yoke somehow got twisted).
Geez! Trade em some more modern hardware for what you want/need. I've
been giving away lots of Mac IICi's for the last 2 years now, since
the university here keeps throwing em away. Another department here
has been trying to sell mac IICi's for $15 each, and it doesnt look like
they are selling em at that price.
I dont have any TRS-80's in my collection (except one mutant model 4),
and if they have any REAL apple II's (ie, not a plus model, the real
integer basic II's), it would seem to be a nice trade.. I imagine
they would love a 486 system, or even a good 386, if all they have
are TRS-80's and Apple II series computers.
-Lawrence LeMay
lemay(a)cs.umn.edu