Re: John's quest at 2nd hand stores.:

[Kris Jones <razor@speakeasy.org>]

BRAG:

IIgs ROM 3, Transwarp GS, Focus 60MB, and AE GS-RAM III w/ 3MB...

$9

(albeit the powersupply was blown and one of the chips on the RAM III was blown,
but so far everything else works great!)

I love Goodwill!

On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Bart wrote:

> In article <vRWk4.152$dx4.12163197@alpha.sky.net>, jmholmes@swbell.net says...
> >
> >Ya know, I keep hearing about people going to the thrift stores and finding 
> >all of this computer equipment, but I have yet to find one piece of anything 
> >more technologically advanced than a typewriter! 
> 
> John: I think my area of the country (Salem Oregon) is lucky in that we are a 
> fairly poor area of a not too rich state and the APpels are just NOW being 
> disposed of by the backwoods schools and we are in the only metro area nearby 
> where Goodwill does bizz, hence, they are showing up.  The other thing is  I 
> may just be the only Apple ][ nut in this area and therefore....When I show up 
> at the thrifts I do run into some guys grabbing the 386s but an old 2?  forget 
> it!  
> btw I will mention it:  THat ROM 3 I bought this weekend?  3 dollars.'
> 
> -Bart
> 
> 
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