Re: Not many left...

["The Wizard of Oz" <wizard@emeraldcity.gov>]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:58:18 -0700, jts wrote these words of wisdom:

> Good morning,
> 
> Please excuse any typos or complete illogiciality. (Or the invention of
> non-words.) I'm not human until my third cup of coffee.
> 
> I work for a school district as the network administrator. I have
> personally overseen, helped with, or advised in favor of, the
> destruction of hundreds of Apple II computers. Room fulls. (Floor to
> ceiling at one elementary school. Yes, really.)
> 
> We "recycle" them with a third-party. What they really do with them....
> who knows?
> 
> This morning another load went out. We don't see so many Apple II
> machines anymore. (They used to be like buffalo in the wild west.)
> Mostly it was old Macintosh computers this time---powermacs. An Apple
> IIgs was in there, too. Printer, 3.5" floppy drives. Monitor. Etc.
> 
> I did, however, rescue an Apple IIe platinum from the pile. We now have
> two of them in the office here (my co-worker previously rescued one).
> Mine has the works (printer, dual floppies).
> 
> I like the little guy. Fun sound effects when you turn it on. Reminds
> me of the 80s. Secretly, I've wanted one since I was very young. (But
> I'll probably just keep it here at work. It's huge!)
> 
> It can't count to 10-thousand quicker than I can run for coffee... but
> it has a lot more charm than my Linux box, which could otherwise eat
> the thing for breakfast.
> 
> Oh, and sorry about the entire "wholesale slaughter" thing. If somebody
> had asked, we probably would have donated them somewhere where they
> were wanted.
> 
> Moral: Talk to your local school districts... (But not us. I think
> we're fresh out.)
> 
> Warm regards towards you die-hards,   :-)
> 
> Tom

	Our former local Apple// club has rescued a number of //es and GSs which
were going to be recycled. We found there to be a great response from
people on the lower end of the income scale when we gave the machines to
people who would actually use them.

	Just an FYI...

				Later
				Mike