Re: Mimic Spartan -more info

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Tue, 15 May 2001 00:33:08 -0400, Michael Black
<blackm00@gloria.cam.org> wrote:

>Unless my memory is garbled, a store in Toronto once had a stack of
>Spartans for sale at clearance price. It was at Activce Surplus
>Annex on Queen Street, and might have been 1989 (or a few years earlier).
>They were in boxes and while I can't remember the price, it seemed
>like a pretty good deal at that time.

Ah yes, Active Surplus Annex.  I used to go to that store on a regular
basis and will probably be stopping in there again this Saturday.
Maybe it is just the fact that I don't go there anywhere near as often
as I used to but I just haven't found it to have as good stuff in
recent years.

I never saw the Spartans there but I have picked up the odd bit of
Apple II equipment from there.  My Spartan was given to me as a
Christmas gift from one of my brothers.  He even gave me a spare CPU
card that I always figured could be used to make a portable II+ but I
just never go around to trying it.  :-)

Unfortunately, I never got the documentation for it and, after looking
at the pictures on the web site recently mentioned, I think I am
missing a cable or two as well to hook the video and disk drive
connectors to the Spartan so that the connectors on the back will
function.  I always wondered how that was supposed to work.  :-)

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 Jeff Blakeney - Dean of the Apple II Unversity on A2Central.com