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Re: eBay WTH?
Charlie Springer wrote:
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:34:00 -0700, a2aviator@gmail.com wrote
(in article
<032ff845-a6eb-4be3-8936-7531730c34de@w39g2000prb.googlegroups.com>):
...OTOH, I do have something that I can turn the NIB world upside down
with..
OK, give!
I'll go first. I have a NIB Apple //e Enhanced or whatever with the numeric
keypad keyboard. It has been opened, but just to make sure it is OK. Even the
box looks new.
I have two of those, from the mid-1990s when Shreve Systems was selling
them off for $100 each. One has been opened just to check the contents,
and one is unopened. Apple boxes were much nicer then... ;-)
Oh. I have a perfect NIB National NS3200 32 bit processor development kit I
picked up at Fry's in about 1985. It includes a memory manager chip, floating
pint coprocessor, and four ROMs with the monitor firmware. I should wire-wrap
this thing up some time.
That's great! I was just thinking about this processor last week, along
with the Zilog Z8000--both now vanished. IIRC, the NS32000 was one huge
DIP package!
Also a NIB Dysan 3.25" Floppy with diskettes. They were floppies like the
5.25" style. I had a knack for picking things destined for obscurity.
I think those must be even rarer than "Twiggy" drives. ;-)
-- Charlie Springer
P.S. This reminds me that the Apple II listings on eBay have been shrinking
except for tons of games. Also, prices have gone down except for real
rarities and the never ending lust for accelerators.
In a few recent samplings, I've also noticed a decline in the number of
interesting hardware offerings, but maybe it's just a fluctuation in
the force...
-michael
AppleCrate II: An Apple II "blade server"!
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