Re: Emergency Apple II rescue

[p035631b@pb.seflin.org (Joe Cairnes)]

    My first programming course was at Milwaukee Area Technical College. 
It was in that course that I learned to "peel the Apple" (a ][+)  I do not
think I have come upon that way of expressing opening a machine up since
that course ended.
    Immediately after completing all my programming courses, I moved away
from Wisconsin.  On reading about the Brown Deer acquisition I got somewhat
regretful.
    After buying my first Apple, I watched classified newspaper ads for
notices of more used machines for sale.  Friends started to ask me what I
was doing with something like half a dozen computers.  But I thought I had
one machine with spare parts and spare peripherals.
    More than a few years ago I thought that I had done well when I went to
collect no longer used stuff from an acquaintance.  I got a ][e, a ][+, and
a Commodore 64.  I also got a variety of accessories.  All of this was at
no charge.  But the Brown Deer acquisition reads as being a lot more
exciting.
    But from another point of view, my very last machine acquisition was
better.  It was not only price free, but also cost free.  A ][e was
delivered.  I did not even have to incur travel expense to acquire it!
    Anyway congratulations to all who got some stuff at the Brown Deer
clean out.  I *do* envy you.  And I too am pleased that stuff was saved
from the dump.

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