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Re: eBay WTH?

wood@futility.com wrote:

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:03:23 -0700, Charlie Springer
<RAM@regnirps.com> wrote:


On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:34:00 -0700, a2aviator@gmail.com wrote
(in article <032ff845-a6eb-4be3-8936-7531730c34de@w39g2000prb.googlegroups.com>): 


...OTOH, I do have something that I can turn the NIB world upside down
with..

OK, give!
I'll go first. I have a NIB Apple //e Enhanced or whatever with the numeric keypad keyboard. It has been opened, but just to make sure it is OK. Even the box looks new.
Oh. I have a perfect NIB National NS3200 32 bit processor development kit I picked up at Fry's in about 1985. It includes a memory manager chip, floating pint coprocessor, and four ROMs with the monitor firmware. I should wire-wrap this thing up some time.
Also a NIB Dysan 3.25" Floppy with diskettes. They were floppies like the 5.25" style. I had a knack for picking things destined for obscurity. 

-- Charlie Springer
P.S. This reminds me that the Apple II listings on eBay have been shrinking except for tons of games. Also, prices have gone down except for real rarities and the never ending lust for accelerators. 


Those things are too useful to fetch the high, high prices. You need
something useless to get a bundle.

I suggest (now keep this under your hats) selling the single 16 x 1
memory chip that was removed to install the language card in the
original Apple ][. The one I have is gold plated on the legs and made
by Intel. Why the gold alone must be worth a couple of mil (mil as in
fractional part of a penny.)


That sounds like a nice "jewelry" RAM.  ;-)

But the DRAM chip removed to insert a 16K card is not redundant--it
must be inserted in the empty socket on the 16K card.

The fact that most 16K cards are now found with that socket filled
is just a testament to the "remover's" ignorance that the chip should
have been pulled from the card and plugged back into the main board
socket.

-michael

AppleCrate II: An Apple II "blade server"!
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