Re: Unopened IIe

["Ernest" <leucoplast@seanet.NOSPAM.com>]

"Don Bruder" <dakidd@sonic.net> wrote in message
news:jpNQa.1884$dk4.95639@typhoon.sonic.net...
> In article <lUMQa.2307$r8.1831@nwrddc02.gnilink.net>,
>  "Michael Pender" <mpender@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Ernest <leucoplast@seanet.NOSPAM.com> wrote in message
> > news:F5MQa.55873$wk6.14026@rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net...
> > > Sigh. I wonder how someone managed to add cards to this IIe without
> > opening
> > > the box or plastic wrap? It's like a... a miracle or something.
> > >
> > >
> >
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2741784294&category=4610
> >
> > I didn't see anything in the eBay listing about peripheral cards.  I
would
> > presume they were added at the factory (i.e. Apple).
>
> Well, there were obviously cards in it, since the rear openings were at
> least partially populated in the photo. I never had an "initial owner"
> Apple //e - always picked up second-hand rigs - so I don't know if Apple
> ever offered to pre-install cards. I don't recall ever hearing about 'em
> coming "pre-stuffed", but I expect it's possible that it was bought, the
> shop put the cards in for him, and slipped it back into the bag and box
> for the trip home.

To the best of my knowledge, the Apple II was never sold with preinstalled
cards installed. Besides, those cards would have been knocked out of their
sockets during shipping, as I've seen many times with the used systems that
have been mailed to me. Apple wouldn't have done it that way, and if the box
was opened to install the cards, then it wouldn't be an "unopened" system.
Unused would be the more appropriate term in this case, assuming that it
never was used by the previous owner.

My post was meant to poke fun at the seller, and the buyer who might not
know better.