Re: Mac stuff for Apple II stuff - Swap comments?

["Phil Abel" <ttsh35a@removethisfornospam.prodigy.net>]

The IIc carrying case is quite a rare find in and of itself!!!

"Tim Haynes" <trhaynes@yahoo.SPAMBGONE.com> wrote in message
news:8q6w7.155432$sM1.42980642@news3.rdc1.on.home.com...
> Hey gang,
>
> About 2 weeks ago, I traded a bunch of Macintosh stuff for a bunch of
Apple
> II stuff.  Here is what I traded and what I got - let me know any thoughts
> that you have on whether I made a good trade or not.  I think I made a
good
> trade, but I'm biased towards Apple II and had almost no II stuff to speak
> of (except a ROM01 IIgs with 3 megs of RAM and a 20 meg Vulcan drive).
>
> Here is my Mac stuff that I got rid of:
>
> - "Macintosh Plus 1MB", low density floppy, 1MB of RAM, good battery
cover,
> no keyboard/mouse/hard drive.  However, no front logo, either, which
> probably means it is unusual or somewhat rare?
> - "Macintosh Plus 1Mb", low density floppy, 1MB of RAM, keyboard, no
mouse,
> good battery cover, with an external Dynatek SCSI 20MB hard drive.
>
> - "Macintosh Plus 1MB", low density floppy, 2.5MB of RAM, keyboard, mouse,
> scotch tape on the battery cover.  Has expansion card for Radius external
> 8.5"x11" page layout monitor.  At bootup, the screen displays "Radius
> Accelerator 16 Version 2.0" - I belive the Radius is an accelerator in
> addition to an external monitor card.  Comes with an external HD - the
> "Macintosh Hard Disk 20", which interfaces with the floppy port.  It
> currently is showing as 10 megs in the Finder.  Comes with the Radius
> monitor and drivers installed.
>
> - "Macintosh SE FDHD", high density floppy, 4MB of RAM, 40MB hard drive
with
> "sticktion" issues (it's a 1988 Quantum "40S") that is currently
recognized
> with 10MBs... probably bad sectors.  Has an extended keyboard (that needs
> cleaning) but no mouse.  System 7.0 insatlled.  Has the original box and
> packing styrofoam.
>
> - "Macintosh SE FDHD", high density floppy, 4MB of RAM, 20MB hard drive,
> System 6.04 installed, vey good condition, with SuperMac video card and
> drivers installed, and accompanying 21" monochrome monitor.  Very clear
> display.
>
> - "Macintosh Classic", high density floppy, 2MB of RAM, 35MB hard drive,
> System 6.0.7 installed, keyboard and mouse, with original boxes/packing
> styrofoam.  Extended keyboard and (non-Apple, 3 button) mouse.
>
> - "Macintosh SE/30", high density floppy, 8MB of RAM, 35MB hard drive,
> System 7.1, keyboard, mouse, external NEC SCSI CD-ROM drive (with special
> drivers installed), Astane RJ45 ethernet card (with drivers and software
all
> configured - ready for use!).
>
> - Personal LaserWriter laser printer.  Never tried it, but I bought it
under
> the understanding that it works.
>
> - ImageWriter II - beige.
>
> - Apple 800K external floppy drive, and a DataSystems 800k floppy drive.
>
> - 2 phonenet connectors for localtalk networking.
>
> - a few font disks, some original floppies (7 or 8, utilities and tours
and
> the like), and a keyboard box.
>
>
> Here is the Apple II stuff that I got:
>
> ROM03 IIgs with RamFast Revision D SCSI card, ComputerEyes GS card, 4MB
> GS-RAM Plus card, 100MB external SCSI drive, RGB monitor on "the IIc+
> monitor stand", 2 3.5" drives, 2 5.25" drives
>
> ROM01 IIgs with SonicBlaster and 1MB Apple Memory Expansion card, 2 3.5"
> drives.  RGB monitor.
>
> ROM03 IIgs with 3.5" drive.  Missing the 65C816 and the socket for it,
which
> makes me think that the Transwarp GS listed below originally went with
this
> thing.  Apple Monochrome Monitor.
>
> 3 Apple IIc's with 9" mono monitors on stands and power supplies.
>
> 1 Apple IIc in fabric carrying case.
>
> Apple IIe with Apple Monitor III, 2 5.25" drives, Grappler Pro card
>
> Apple II+ with 2 5.25" drives.
>
> Transwarp GS card with 32K cache but no connecting ribbon/dummy chip.  I
> will have to build one of those myself, and have the necessary
instructions
> and part numbers already.
>
> Tonnes of books and software!  Over 300 3.5" disks, a couple hundred 5.25"
> disks, and a stack of books about about 5" tall.  This includes goodies
such
> as a mint condition Apple II AOL package, the Beagle Brothers "peeks and
> pokes" poster, technical references (only a couple of Toolbox programming
> ones - sniff... I want to do some IIgs development!), the GS/OS 5.04 box,
> and other things.  I'm probably forgetting some stuff here... it's all
down
> in the basement.
>
> I also got some non Apple stuff.  An IBM Display Writer system (pre IBM
PC!)
> and an IBM Portable Computer (all-in-one luggable with built-in CRT and
> flip-down keyboard).
>
> So, I think I got off with the better deal, since I acquired all of my
Macs
> at garage sales for a grand total of about $150CDN (around $80US).
>
> Any thoughts on the haul?  The RAMFAST is AWESOME!  Way faster than that
> Vulcan drive.
>
> Thanks
> Tim
>
>
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