Re: Surplus stuff

[Louis Cornelio <cornelio@crl.crl.com>]

Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
: paulq@no.spam (Paul Quinlan) wrote:

: >supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) suggested that I donate it to
: >Clairemont High School (I'm sure where that is, but I'm near Vancouver,
: >Canada, and if Clairemont is far away the cost of shipping it would be
: >way more than the equipment's value.)

: I may not have been clear....the Clairemont class that wants the
: computers will pay shipping.  4th class shipping between Canada and
: the USA is not much.  Email Louis and let him decide.

Hi. I missed out on some earlier part of this thread, but it is true we 
have put together a lab from discards. However, most of the came right 
from our district! Many school are just dumping the old machines ---
I recognize that 'hoarding syndrome' because I have a stack of IIe's 
stuffed in a closet at school, along w/ drives etc. I keep themm  for 
spare parts.

The success we have had is putting together cool GS systems w/ focus 
drive & extra ram. You know that makes a nice machine that kids will not 
laugh at. They do Hyperstudio projects & play Tetris & other games at lunch.
I was able to upgrade those machines by selling off some cards I may have 
found like IIe ram or even workstation cards. They are unused by the 
district most importantly not on inventory (he,he) so I could get 
creative & try to get what we need by dealing w/ csa2 folks.

Of which -- anyone know James Poore? I posted that question a few days 
back -- I hate to say he ripped off our class, but after a month w/ no 
contact it is starting to look that way, grrr... I maybe got too trusting 
as so many people on this newsgroup have been so kind in helping us out!

But I am rambling. Oh, another nail in Apple coffin at schools -- not 
only are they dumping IIes , but it looks like they won't buy many more 
Macs. Why? Market share numbers...

ok, have fun!
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- Louis Cornelio	check out our classroom Apple II webpage!
			http://www.n2.net/clairemont/