What Good is our Apple II's?

[bpvh@primenet.com (Bradley P. Von Haden)]

fcarters@iah.com (F. Carter Smith) wrote:

>At tonight's PTA meeting, the subject of what to do with all the
>Apple II's in our elementary school came up.
>
>The computer lab is replacing them with Power Macs, and plan to
>move a few to classrooms to utilize some of the good software.
>
>Is there a market to sell the leftovers? Or is there a way to
>connect them to the Internet?

There are companies that buy (and then refurbish and sell) Apple II
family computers.  Here is a list:


     B.  Used

	ARC (Apple Resource Center)
	 - parts/repair?, catalog
		Sales: 800-753-0114
		Phone: 209-832-4300
		FAX  : 209-832-3270

	Classroom Computer Co.
	 - II computers, peripherals and accessories
		Sales: 800-800-5115
		Phone: 415-388-9000
		Fax  : 415-388-9090

	Creative Solutions
	 - II peripherals
		Phone: 513-429-5759

	Pre-Owned Electronics
	 - II computers, peripherals and accessories
		Sales: 800-274-5343
		Intl : 617-275-4600
		FAX  : 617-275-4848

	Shreve Systems
	 - II computers, peripherals, parts and accessories
		Sales: 800-227-3971
		Tech : 318-424-7987
		Fax  : 318-424-9771
		Purchasing (Shreve buys from you): 318-424-9791

	Sun Remarketing
	 - II computers, peripherals, parts, manuals and accessories
		Sales: 800-821-3221
		Tech : 800-992-7631 (under warranty)
		Tech : 900-786-7782 (non-warranty consultant)
		Fax  : 801-755-3311

Apple II's can be connected to the net.  What will be needed is a
communications program (Proterm), a modem (any Hayes compatible
external up to 14.4), a serial card (Apple SuperSerial Card), the
proper cabling, and an Internet Service Provider that offers shell
(text) accounts.

The Apple will act like a dummy terminal interacting with the net
with the unix commands provided in the shell account.  Email (mail,
elm, etc), usenet news (rn, trn, etc), www (lynx), ftp (ftp, ncftp),
gopher (gopher), etc can all be accessed using the unix shell
commands.  About the only thing a II user can not do is graphically
surf the web (but can textually surf the web).

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