Re: Punished for insolence

["Brandon M. Keafer" <b-keafer@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu>]

I may be interested in buying some of your Apple II stuff from you.  I am
still a student and I recently came upon a few of old Apple II's from my old
high school.  They were in various shapes, most not entirely working. But I
still had some of my old disks from grade school that were used on the
Apples, so I have been trying to get them up and going and end up with a
good complete working IIe and IIgs.  If you could let me know what  you have
and what you would part with it for, maybe we could work something out.  You
can reach me via e-mail.  Thanks in advance!!


Brandon



Paul Quinlan wrote in message <6fe9e8$3t2@news.inforamp.net>...
>When the High Handed Cyber-Entitities (of our own creation) learned of my
>intention to get rid of my old Apple II equipment they resolved to punish
>this insolence by visiting me with loads of more Apple II stuff.
>
>Word has gotten around my user group that I will accept any surplus
>computer equipment (or rather, I just can't say 'No') and people even
>drive here to deliver their old systems -- now I am burdened with stacks
>of II Plusses, //e's and even GS's. Dot matrix printers, Grappler cards,
>Monitor //'s, Disk ][ drives, books, manuals, Hayes Micromodem II's, I
>have heaps. As for plug in cards -- they're sitting around here by the
>bushel: Microsoft Softcards, Videx video cards, extended 80-col cards.
>There is a mountain of 5 1/4" disks I could ski down. (I need not mention
>the Intel-based jetsam*, except that I've read somewhere that the world
>will end with neither a bang nor a whimper but with a slithering plastic
>sound as it's buried under mountains of PC-clone motherboards.)
>
>One (rather lame) reason that I take on all this stuff is that I can
>salvage some of it for projects I'm working on, such as the handy little
>10k trim pots on Disk ][ analog cards. However, there's hardly any room to
>turn around in this apartment any more. Visitors shake their heads and
>ask, "How many computers have you _got_ anyway," not realizing what a
>stupid question this is, and next time this happens I'm going to reply,
>"How many do you want?"
>
>Problem is I just can't seem to throw out anything with that rainbow
>colored apple on it. Maybe this is some outmoded feeling of brand loyalty
>(going back to the days when a II owner could actually phone up Steve
>Wozniak and chat (not that _I_ ever did, but I do remember a time when
>Apple actually listened to the user groups.) Or maybe I just think it will
>all have antique value some day... in the Who-Knows-When.
>
>I just don't want to see it all go to waste, which I suppose is why the
>people drop it off here in the first place. Perhaps someone somewhere
>in the world could use it (or do all the Patagonians use Pentium II's with
>8 gig hard drives?)
>
>So if anyone on this forum knows of some beneficial use for all this stuff
>would they please post some suggestions.
>
>Thanks, Paul Quinlan
>
>* ps. jetsam n.
>
>1. Cargo or equipment thrown overboard to lighten a ship in distress.
>
>2. Discarded cargo or equipment found washed ashore. See Usage Note at
>flotsam.
>
>3. Discarded odds and ends. [From earlier jetson, alteration of
>Middle English jetteson, a throwing overboard. See JETTISON.]
>
>--(_American Heritage Dictionary_)