Disposal of Apple II stuff (was OT: Australia flooding)

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> wrote:

> mdj wrote:
> > On Jan 10, 9:12 am, magnusfalkirk <dean.pha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Here's hoping that all our Australian Apple II friends, and their
> >> families, are safe from the flooding that country has been
> >> experiencing!
> >>
> >> Dean
> > 
> > Thanks Dean! We're OK where we are, but if it keeps up like this it
> > might get interesting later on in January.
> > 
> > Matt
> >
> 
> Suddenly, I have a vision of Mr. Empson madly dashing out of his house,
> holding a IIgs with both hands, and some ref mans balanced on top, above his
> head. :-)

Except I'm not in Australia. Right general part of the world, wrong
country. :-)

I'm in Wellington, New Zealand. A better analogy would be Mr Empson
madly dashing out of his house, chasing after a IIgs and manuals as they
slide down a landslip after an earthquake or heavy rain. :-)

Actually, Mr Empson is about to move house again and will be seriously
considering throwing out a lot of Apple II stuff. If I can be bothered,
I could cart it all to the new place and make a better effort to sell
some of it off rather than dumping it, but I have a lot of inherited
bits from other people that I'd like to weed out before moving.

Now that most of the manuals are available as scanned PDFs, I don't see
much point keeping original manuals which I haven't even got out of
boxes in my basement for five years, or read in detail at for more like
fifteen years.

My IIgs is still set up in the office at work, but gets turned on at
most once a year. If it was in a box at home, I'd be considering getting
rid of it as well.

Unfortunately the only IIe I have appears to have a dead power supply
and I haven't laid my hands on a spare. I have at least one IIc (with 9"
monitor) that someone else gave me.

In theory I have at least three working IIgs computers, one which I
inherited still has the original RGB monitor.

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz