Hello everyone!

["alex" <asotelo@techie.com>]

I am new to this group. I discovered it when I searched for "Bob
Bishop" "dung beetles" "we gotcha!" on google. I started reading the
threads, and it really brought back a lot of memories! I have some
games in emulators, but I also have an APPLE ][e with a whole lot of
stuff on it. (z80, 80 col, direct floppy drive, modem, cooling fan,
etc) that I got at a garage sale, and I beefed it up.
The very first Apple that I got was a clone that I bought from a friend
from Hong Kong, he was going home for the summer (I was in Hawaii) and
I told him to bring me one, and I would pay for it. He said he could
not, because at that time customs was litterally smashing Apple clones
at the airport, with a sledge hammer. But I guess he took a chance, and
passed it through with no problem. It was called a "Jabbal" that had a
logo of a rat eating an Apple. It had 64 meg on the board, and it seems
to me that it had an extra ROM that was not thre, but it was labeled
"USER" The ROMs were also doulbel the size of a regular ROM, I think
that it had both Integer ROMS and regular roms all in one. It all
sounded nice and neat...but when I went to pick it up, he had connected
the floppy ribbon backwards and fried one of the ROMS. After a couple
of days, another one of his friends gave him a regular ROM from a
regular apple and put it on, the womputer worked, but it was very
limmited, and it would do strange things at times. I did not care, It
worked for me. The year was 1982 and the price was $600.00. It also had
a RF card that connected it to a regular TV.