Re: Thrift store finds

["Phil Abel" <ttsh35a@removethisfornospam.prodigy.net>]

3 years or so ago I picked up two brand-new-in-shrinkwrap Transwarp GS cards
at an auction for $5 each.  Probably could have gotten them for $2 each but
I was so excited I opened the bidding at $5 to scare off the opposition.
However, there was no opposition.  In fact I got some strange looks as to
why the hell I would want something like that.

Those were the good old pre-ebay-monopoly days when you could buy computer
surplus at open outcry auctions for a song.

"Curious Gene" <gene@xlrn.ucsb.edu> wrote in message
news:2qMw7.13$4e2.22543@paloalto-snr1.gtei.net...
> I suppose this is a good enough subject to delurk with. Since others
> here seemed to be having such good luck finding IIGS gear in thrift
> stores, I figured I might as well give it a try here in Santa Barbara,
> which until now has been pretty barren. But lo and behold, they
> actually had some stuff. I only grabbed a couple of things, because
> I didn't have a lot of cash on me, but here's what I have. (And I
> should mention I'm something of a newbie to the whole IIGS thing,
> but I found an old Woz edition in storage, and started playing with
> it... you all know how that goes.)
>
> A ROM 01 with all kinds of fun cards inside. There is...
> 1. A Quality Computers QRAM 2GS card in the memory slot. I can't seem
> to find much info about these anywhere. Can anybody help out with this?
> 2. An Apple SCSI card, model 820-0153-A.
> 3. A Digital Vision "ComputerEyes" card, which has three cables that
> trail out of one of the unused slots in the back. A bit messy, but
> what're you gonna do? This is a video capture card, right?
> 4. A card I've been unable to identify. It's a tiny little thing with
> only one identifying mark: on the back, it says "Roger Wagner
> Publishing (C) 1988  FCC ID:HYORWIIGS". It's got a rainbow-colored
> ribbon that connects to the little 7 pin connector up by the memory
> slot, and a twisty little red and blue wire that runs to the 2 pin
> connector marked "fan" between the monitor port and the disk port.
> The port it presents to the outside world is really nondescript.
> It's just round, and looks like a really big AC jack. Does anybody
> have any idea what this does? Something to do with HyperStudio?
>
> A ROM 03 that is, except for that aformentioned unidentified card,
> totally vanilla. But it's *really* clean and nice looking. A little
> yellowed, but otherwise it looks like nobody even used it all that
> much.
>
> I also grabbed two 3.5" and two 5.25" drives, and a really bright,
> crisp RGB monitor. All this for $16.00.
>
> So... how'd I do?
>
> --
> Gene Sullivan   |   System Operator   |   gene@xlrn.ucsb.edu
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> kids, now we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, bumping into
> people, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.