Re: Weekend Garage Sale Score

[kynrek <kynrek@gmail.com>]

On Oct 17, 10:05 am, IUnknown <stevement...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My wife and I like the drive around and go to garage sales
> occasionally.
>
> I have been looking for a stereo receiver for my garage - and well,
> she just likes to shop. We figure that why throw something away when
> it could still have life - and mostly, I am just cheap.
>
> So, after finding a suitable stereo receiver (Sony - $10), we hit a
> couple of other garage sales and are just about to head home for the
> day. We hit the last house, and are perusing the inventory. The wife
> locates an old hello kitty cordless phone, and my son says 'Dad -
> there is some apple stuff over here'.
>
> I wander over to the cardboard box containing an old HP deskjet style
> printer.... and there is a PC-style keyboard and mouse in there -
> apple branded with an ADB connector. My son asked what they wanted for
> it.....
>
> 'Give me a $1 and you can take it'.
>
> So, I walked away with a great (working) full-size ADB keyboard for
> $1. Gotta love garage sales. The sad thing is that it would have ended
> up in a dumpster otherwise.....   How much of this great stuff ended
> up in landfills?
>
> This is an ebay auction showing the keyboard type. For $1, it was a
> steal :)
>
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/AppleDesign-Keyboard-M2980-Use-Apple-II-GS-FX...

That's awesome I just picked ap a iigs system with the keyboard,
monitor, mouse, 3.5 and 5.25 drive for $50 on Craigslist.