Big liberation, part 2: WAY more software plus some hardware

[Anonymous Freak]

I recently posted about a decent haul.

I went back today, and got more. Easily 1000 disks worth of software, PC, Mac, Apple II. Some still boxed (At Ease 2.0, anyone?) Most in floppy disk organizers. Mostly 5.25", haven't gotten a look, but a decent chunk of those are Apple II software.

Plus the first of the hardware.

Two SEs, one a "SuperDrive" model, one that has been at least partially stripped (labelled as a dual 800K, but has no floppy drives in,) but labelled as having a Brainstorm upgrade. An LC III, and a Performa 600 are in there as well.

The big scores, (for me) are the ImageWriter II and three Apple IIc's, with one Apple IIc greenscale monitor. Plus an Apple DuoDisk (dual 5.25" floppy drives in one enclosure, theoretically for an Apple IIe.)

Still in the storage (the guy is emptying his storage unit,) that I could see are a couple Mac monitors (15" Multiscan, plus what appeared to be a standard 14" LC/IIsi-era,) a couple Apple IIe-era monitors, and an early Apple Scanner. Plus a bunch of PC stuff that I likely won't be taking. Some of the software is for an Apple IIgs, so I'm hoping there's one of those hiding somewhere. (My car was full as it was.)

All officially free, but I gave him $20 just because. (He was hemming and hawing about giving up all three Apple IIc's, since the recycler he is going to take the scraps would pay him more than a couple bucks a piece, so I whipped out the $20, and I think I'll be able to get anything that isn't full-collectible-quality free now.)

Left behind was a PowerBook 170 in horrible condition. (Case cracked in multiple places, screen not looking good, and apparent water damage.) I don't really have time to try repairs, I have enough dead systems awaiting repair that the only reason I even went for the floppy-less SE was the potential of a Brainstorm upgrade.

I may head back tomorrow, but more likely the next trip won't be until Friday. His storage unit contract renews on the 15th of each month, and he wants to be out before then. Anything I don't take will end up going to a scrap recycler that pays by the pound; so I'm trying to grab good stuff. But apparently the recycler won't take floppies, so I'm having the floppies pawned off on me wether I like it or not. (I guess he considers that to be the 'fee' for taking the actual computers.)

 

[Bunsen]

$20 .... for three IIcs ... that were headed for the scrapheap ...

8-o

MLA medal for you!

 

[MacMan]

Definitely worth going back to see if there's any more good stuff there. Your current haul is amazing and there may still be hidden treasures in that storage unit!

 

[Anonymous Freak]

Yeah, on Monday when I first went out, he had mentioned the two SEs "plus one or two more," but didn't even mention Apple II-series.

 

[aphetica]

People who do mass liberations and recycle them back into the MLA don't deserve medals. They deserve promotions. :beige:

 

[Anonymous Freak]

Well, shoot. Not only does the "Brainstorm" SE have no drives, the CRT is dead. I'll have to take it apart and see if it even still has the Brainstorm upgrade. if so, I'll have to swap motherboards with another SE.

The other SE works fine. It's labelled "SE SuperDrive", and does, indeed, have a 1.4 MB floppy drive, plus a 40 MB hard drive; with 2 MB of RAM. It had a minimal install of System 7.1 on, but I promptly replaced it with System 4.1, Finder 5.5

All three Apple IIc's work, although two are really grungy, physically.

Also found in my initial review of disks:

MacWrite. 2.2, with an original Macintosh plastic accessory case and MacWrite manual, "Macintosh Quick Reference Card", "Macintosh - The Adventure Begins Here" pamphlet, two Apple-logo disk labels (for user disks,) and a still sealed packet of old-school Apple stickers. Really old school, they have the old Apple II-era font, instead of Apple Garamond. Unfortunately, not Guided Tour disk or audio tape. The disk appears to be nearly unaltered, with Finder 1.1g as the boot version! The only non-original file is a letter written on December 10, 1984! (It appears to have been owned by a bank, the document is a form letter from a bank to a bunch of nonprofit organizations, each page the same thing to a different organization.)

Plus a "Guided Tour of Apple IIgs", and an entire set of Apple IIc floppies. Plus a copy of ClarisWorks for Apple II on 5.25" disks. I had thought that the Apple II had been abandoned by the time Claris was spun off, but I guess not.

edit: Oh, and two more copies of System 7.1, which brings me to, uh, 18 copies?