Re: Old Apple ][ Cards...

[tturner@ecn.ab.ca ()]

tturner@ecn.ab.ca wrote:
: Hi, all.  Was given an Apple ][+ a few years back, from my Uncles' estate
: and had it in my computer room meaning to get around to checking it out.
: Never really found the time to do so.  In early July, there was freak,
: extreme thunderstorm and our basement was flooded-out - a combo of water
: and sewer backup through our storm drain (actually, through a secondary
: storm drain we didn't realize we had - but that's beside the point).

: So: the Apple ][+ was submerged and is now `toast'.  Unfortunately, I
: hadn't even cracked the case to see what was in it.  I just did so this
: week (still inventorying stuff from the flood/backup).  Of course, since

Thanks for the responses.  I just want to underline that the water was
`dirty water' - it was a sewer backup.  Yes, diluted, due to copious
amounts of rainwater mixed in - but still; the fecal coliform count was
significantly greater than zero.  It smelled.  Bad.  That is a good part
of why I'm not keeping the ][+ or the Cards within it.  I just hate to see
the Cards go bye-bye, without checking to see if anyone is interested.

Pulled a IIe behind a boat?  Sounds like alcohol was involved... :-) 

I can't see re-wetting/washing the system, in hopes of cleaning it well
enough to be confident that no `dirt' remains in some nook/cranny, or
under some chip; to say nothin of the power-supply (as someone mentioned).

I've had a couple of responses indicating willingness to take the Cards -
I just want to make sure it's clearly understood that `shit happens' in
life - and it sure did in our basement, in July...  :-( 

-Tony T.

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