Cannibalising/Re-cycling

[John Le Febvre <John@klatch.demon.co.uk>]

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'

I realise that the (many) interface cards themselves would be useless,
but again, these could perhaps be stripped to their component level.

I've already had the idea of using the blanking plates from the XT hard 
disks for fronting the housing of an external SCSI drive.  


It's funny really, when you think about it.  Here are all these useless
computers, cost thousands new and had a life of maybe five years.  The 
Apple II cost hundreds and is still alive and kicking, 20 years on!
Does the phrase 'Suckers' spring to anyone else's mind, too?

Cheers
-- 
John.
john@klatch.demon.co.uk