Re: Emergency Apple II rescue

["Christopher D. Heer" <chris-heer.nospam@home.com.nospam>]

I was there.  Woo-hoo!

Dennis Jenkins <dennis@usb.com> wrote in message
3ABF6229.947B87ED@usb.com">news:3ABF6229.947B87ED@usb.com...

[ snip re: Brown Deer, WI rescue ]


> Things that I passed up (and wish I hadn't):
> 1) A huge collection of IO cards.  I should have grabbed them and sorted
> through them later.  I probably passed up some really good ones.

I snagged several boxes of these.  No idea what all is in them, although
half appear to be Grappler+ cards.  :)

> 2) A box of 4 Apple IIs.  Not IIe or II+'s, but the real, original,
> Apple II.  Shooting myself in head right now.

Don't think I got those, but I grabbed so many IIx-form-factor computers
that there's no telling.

> 3) A disassembled bell & howell Apple IIe.  At the time I didn't want to
> mess with reassembling it, so I left it to die.

Saw it, but I left it too.

> 4) Tons of power bricks for IIc's.  I don't need them, but I could sell
> them on evilbay.

I grabbed oodles of these.

> 5) ~40 cubic feet of floppy disks.  I don't want the software.  I would
> have just saved it from the trash heap and then passed it on to someone
> who would want it.  But the car was already too full.

I grabbed some, just to be sure I had support disks for the hardware I
grabbed.

> 6) A box full of IIc's (8 or so) , some were labeled IIc+ (I think I saw
> 2).

I got that.

> 8) About 10 RGB monitors.  I would have no way to fit them in my car,
> but they are the best peripheral one could get for the IIgs.

I grabbed many of these, along with composite color, green, etc.

Some of my other finds:

o Four IIgs's.  Two are Woz.  No idea yet what the other two are.
o A IIe-upgraded-to-a-IIgs.  Didn't even know I had it until I unloaded.
o Uncountable ][+'s and //e's.  At least fifty, and possibly 100 or more.
o Three or four Laser 128's.
o A slew of ImageWriter IIs and ImageWriters.

Who knows what else. . . words cannot describe the sheer volume of stuff
there.  I filled my minivan on Saturday.  Wished, at that time, that I
could've grabbed more, but she (the widow) needed to get everything out of
there; whatever we enthusiasts didn't take was headed for the dumpster.  She
had a time limit because of the closing time of the dump.  Everyone else was
gone before I left.

When I got home (I am about an hour south), I called her just to see if
anything was left.  Turns out the dump closed early, so everything was left.
I zoomed back up and got another vanload.  Arranged to arrive again Sunday.
On Sunday I took a third vanload; this time I also brought a second vehicle
and packed it as well, thanks to a very patient wife.  Half of my garage is
now buried in this stuff.

It'll take me a month just to inventory this stuff.  It'll take me a couple
more to clean/test.

This just rocks.  :)