Re: RE-PC (Seattle, WA) brag was Re: goodwill store brag

["Mark Cummings" <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au>]

John (or anyone else that has a Laser UDC),

I have the docs (actually just a few pages) for the late model of the Laser
UDC cards if you need it I can scan and send it to you.

remove "NOT from e-mail if you reply privately.

Mark
Townsville, Oz


John Laughlin wrote in message <3AD39876.7042B8EF@premier1.net>...
>Today, I just picked up another Apple 3.5 Drive for my //e with Laser UDC
card
>for $5.00, and a second disk ][ drive for my IIgs for $2.00.  Not bad...
For
>anyone who's interested, they still have three other Apple 3.5 Drives, a
>couple Mac 800K floppies, two IIgs RGB monitors (planning to get one
tomorrow
>for my GS) a couple DuoDisk drives with the cables attached, a UniDisk
5.25,
>and another early disk ][ with the rainbow colored ribbon cable and a
serial
>number around 189,000.  All of these items are in the AS-IS clearance
corner.
>In their main showroom, they have a //e with Apple 5.25 controller card,
and
>what looks to be a RF modulator with an RCA cable coming out of the #2
opening
>in the back of the case.  They also have a IIgs CPU with a Grappler +, and
>also have 1 remaining AppleColor Composite Monitor //e with the front cover
>door missing.
>-J
>
>Dennis Jenkins wrote:
>>
>>         While I was at work yesterday, my wife called me from her cell
phone.
>> She was at the local goodwill store.  She said "Dennis, they have a
>> bunch of Atari 2600 games here.  They look like they are in really good
>> shape, would you like me to read the titles to you?"  First, wow:  My
>> wife loves me so much she pays attention to my hobbies and tries to help
>> me.  Second, wow: near perfect condition atari carts.  We ended up
>> getting over 20 of them (and left 22 behind).  That night we went
>> through VGR's rarity list and we discovered that we picked up 3 ER
>> (extremely rare) carts.  I don't remember all the names, but one was
>> Imagic's Fire Fighter, and another was Kanomi's Pooyan (pig game?).  All
>> carts were $1.00/unit.
>>
>>         Then, to make things even better, she walked over to the computer
>> isle.  "Hey Dennis, they have an Apple Monitor here."  I asked her for
>> details.  Turns out that it is an Apple RGB monitor, with video cable,
>> for a IIgs!  For $6.99!  (These go for ~$25 on ebay + $25 shipping).  So
>> we picked that up as well.  So, when we got home that night I hooked up
>> the RGB monitor and my composite video monitor to my IIgs and booted
>> into GS/OS.  You (apple) guys were right, it makes a HUGE difference!
>>
>>         She is going back today to see if any more of the Apple system
shows
>> up.  It seems odd to me that someone would drop of the RGB monitor at
>> goodwill and not the rest of the system, so I think more pieces might
>> show up in the near future.
>>
>> --
>> dennis@usb.com                           Universal Savings Bank.
>>
>> The three most dangerous things are a programmer with a soldering
>> iron, a manager who codes, and a user who gets ideas.
>
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