Not many left...

["jts" <ts@stowellconsulting.com>]

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