Re: Cannibalising/Re-cycling

[shoppa@almach.caltech.edu (Timothy D. Shoppa)]

In article <866172570wnr@klatch.demon.co.uk>, John@klatch.demon.co.uk writes...
>Hi folks.
> 
>My company has finally had that clearout that they've been promising for
>ages, and have collected all the old PC's together ready for dumping.
>There is all sorts from IBM XT's to PS/2's (sorry for all this swearing)
> ;)
> 
>Anyway, I wondered if anything was worth salvaging for use in the Apple 
>II.  There is 256K ram socketed on the XT m/b, 10Mb hard disks (MFM or 
>RLL?), 20Mb, 60Mb and 115Mb ESDI hard disks, the 8088/80n86 processors 
>etc etc.  The RAM is marked 'inmos 8518-C IMS2600P-15'

Incidentally, I just tore apart a Franklin PC-compatible.  (Remember
Franklin?  They once made Apple II clones.)  In it I found this
power supply unit that is *exactly* the same shape and size as one
in a II/II+.  I'm pretty sure that with a change of connectors that
it can be dropped straight into a II...

And the monitor for the Franklin system was a composite video
monochrome unit that works perfectly on my II as well!

Tim. (shoppa@altair.krl.caltech.edu)