Re: Emergency Apple II rescue

[Dennis Jenkins <dennis@usb.com>]

What city do you live in?  I live in Waukesha.  If you find any adapter
cards that have a 37 pin D shell connector, please let me know.  I have
the drives for them.  Maybe we can swap some stuff around.

"Christopher D. Heer" wrote:
> 
> I was there.  Woo-hoo!
> 
> Dennis Jenkins <dennis@usb.com> wrote in message
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> 
> [ 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.  :)

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