GBBS Dies - L&L Gives Up

[damin@aho.cba.csuohio.edu (Greg Boehlein)]

I pulled this off the FutureNet this morning...
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 Subject      : L&L Gives Up!!!!
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 Date Posted  : Wednesday, December 1st, 1993  11:42:57 ET
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Please sit down and hold on to something before reading it :)

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 [Apple Users Conference #5]
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 From   : Lance Taylor-Warren
 To     : All
 Subject: Carry on a Apple II Software tradition...
 Date   : 29 Nov 93  16:00

 Have I got a deal for you...

 Have you ever wanted to be your own boss?  Have you often thought about
 writing your own BBS Program?  Now is your chance to do both. I have the
 following for sale:

 1 - Apple IIgs ROM 03, RGB Monitor, Extended Keyboard (5mb RAM)
 1 - Apple IIgs ROM 01, Green Screen, Regular Keyboard. (1.5mb+ Ram)
 1 - 3.5" drive
 1 - 5.25" drive
 2 - 5.25" drives (w/ controller)
 2 - ZipGS Accelerators (8mhz & 9mhz)
 1 - Apple SCSI card1 - RAMFast SCSI card (rev c)
 1 - Seagate 43mb Hard Drive
 1 - Quantum 80mb Hard Drive
 1 - Stereo Card for GS
 1 - ProDEV DDT 16 Debugging board

 And the icing on the offer, all the source code and commercial distribution
 rights for GBBS Pro (Both ProDOS and DOS 3.3 versions) and the source code
 and distribution rights for LLUCE as it stands today. This means you will
 fully own BOTH products. I will also include EVERYTHING I have Apple II
 related.  The systems will include everything on the hard drives.  All the
 sources and other development stuff as well as the DPS Support BBS as it is
 the day of the sale. Also included is the index cards of all known
 registered owners of GBBS Pro.

 As you have by most likely figured out, I'm selling all my Apple II stuff
 in hopes that someone out there has the time and the motivation to finish
 LLUCE and make a run for the market that's out there for it.  I'm tired of
 looking at it and would love to see someone else run with it.

 Our projected marketing figures for LLUCE show that is has the potential to
 make well over $100,000 once it's done.  All that is really left to finish
 is the docs and the installation/configure program. Once someone has come
 up to speed on how things are setup, you could have a new BBS product
 within a month. With the rapidly declining prices of Apple II equipment it
 becomes an even better platform to use as a base for a BBS. Why tie up a
 Mac or a IBM to use as a BBS with that Apple II sitting in the corner
 collecting dust is just perfect for the task.So now the BIG question...

 How much do I want for everything listed above? Well, even tho it's worth
 well over $20,000.  I'm willing to let it go at a fraction of that price to
 the right person. If you are interested, please contact me at 702-322-5533
 or via the following e-mail address, Internet: lance@dps.com, Fidonet
 1:213/312 or 1:213/0.  Visa/MC/Discover/AMEX accepted.

 - Lance Taylor-Warren

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