Re: What have I got

["John Van Winkle" <appleiieman@charter.net>]

Sounds like you got a great buy....finding gold in a junk store.....<grin>


John
Home of the 2 Enhanced
Apple IIe's



"Laine Houghton" <laine@intergate.com> wrote in message
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> Ok the junk store was advertising 50% off for today. I made a note to
> schedule an hour or so today for a look around.
> I of course headed right for the computer department.
>
>
> First found a Mac LCII. I popped the top and saw it had a 80 MB drive with
> vid mem and expansion mem  and now that I know what a PDS slot is I could
> see it held a card. It was a cpu box minus cords and all but when I
plugged
> it into components here at home it fired up with 7.5.3. Not bad for $2.00
I
> thought but I pulled the card and discovered it was the //e card. Sweet,
> I'll need to learn some about this.
>
>
> My eyes really lit up when I spotted the bare cpu //gs box.
>
> I popped the top and saw a 1/4 populated 1meg board.
> Another card I didn't recognize and another card I didn't recognize.
> The rest was average althought it struck me this might be a rom3 version.
> Anyway for $2.00 I'd take the spare power supply alone. I still need to
> research if this is rom3 as I haven't tried to power it.
> Research tonight shows one card is a HS SCSI card. Never had one so I'm
> elated.
>
> The other card is a mastery development and searching suggest this was a
> school network card. I'd like to learn more about it.
>
>
> For $4.00 this has certainly keep me entertained today.
>
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