Re: My Apple II stuff

[Silicon Sam <SiliconSam@gmail.com>]

On Aug 11, 7:35 pm, Chris Morse <win32...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 11, 7:14 pm, Silicon Sam <Silicon...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Aug 10, 2:17 pm, Chris Morse <win32...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Hey all,
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> > > I've been going through all my old stuff, in an attempt to both
> > > catalog and re-pack/re-organize.  I took over 300 pictures of various
> > > items, mostly apple II related book and my apple II hardware.  I have
> > > a tendency to collect 6502 assembler books, so I have quite a variety
> > > of them.  I still have some more to catalog/image, but this is the
> > > bulk of my junk, stuff I keep/store.  What's more are a few books, and
> > > 2 boxes of 5.25" disks (at the least).
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> > >     inventory - apple II, old books, etc
> > >    http://stoff.smugmug.com/gallery/5665096_xot9V
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> > > I figure someone else may get a kick out of seeing it all laid out,
> > > since I would love to see someone else's collection of stuff, maybe
> > > see something I never knew before.   When I finish the inventory I'll
> > > add some comments to the images, such as titles, dates and condition
> > > and try to organize it more.  There are some old PC items in there,
> > > like Turbo C 1.5, Turbo Assembler, i386 assembler books.
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> > > On the lines of archiving, for posterity, I would be willing to copy/
> > > convert apple II 5.25" and 3.5" disks into virtual disk images (.
> > > 2mg/.dsk) and not charge anything for doing it.  I wouldn't be able to
> > > 'crack' the copy protected stuff, heh, but old disks of BBS files and
> > > stuff would be good stuff to save.  Then consider putting the public
> > > domain stuff on asimov for others to enjoy! =P
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> > > BTW, I'm not looking to sell stuff, just making it available for
> > > view.  like a little museum run by 1 guy.
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> > > // CHRIS
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> >   Chris, ever notice anything peculiar about the cover of the
> > AppleWorks book?  The one with the //c and the guy on the cover....- Hide quoted text -
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> > - Show quoted text -
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> Hmm.. Well, not sure what all is going on with his right leg, looks
> like something else is obstructing the image, but the same color as
> his pants.  And the //c doesn't seem to be plugged in (video cable
> port has nothing connected to it; can't see the power port).
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> What did YOU notice?
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> // CHRIS

  Yeah, the video unplugged from the //c.  Yet he appears to be
looking at the screen.  There is a couple of other manual covers with
stuff like that, but it's been years since I've looked at them.  The
cover of the Inside Macintosh books shows a Mac 128K or 512K
motherboard without the RAM chips soldered in.