I forgot to mention another conquest I had once...
I was over at a music store talking to my mom about what I was going to do with one of my Macs. A lady who was there overheard me talking about older Macs and asked me if I wanted any. Turns out she was a tech coordinator for a school and they were about to dump a bunch of Apple IIe computers! I was only 14 at the time so any local pickup was a good thing–I was too young to be eBaying and the last thing I wanted to see was a bunch of good machines go into a dumpster (which is where they were headed if I hadn't come in!)
A few days later I loaded up my mom's minivan with three Apple IIes, three ImageWriter IIs, three huge composite IIe monitors, a whole box of 5.25" floppy drives (UniDisk and DuoDisk), an entire folder of Apple stickers (which I have sadly misplaced since then), manuals for everything, a few unopened boxes of blank 5.25" disks, a ton of serial mice (the rare Mouse IIe and Mouse IIc kind!), the original system disks for each machine, and a disk notcher! (I could have had about seven more but I didn't have room in either the van or my house!)
To make it even better–a few days before I met this lady I had scored a sweet garage sale conquest–for $21 I got a Mac SE FDHD, a MacTilt stand, several original Apple II games (including an excellent version of the old Parker Bros game "Clue" published by (I think) Virgin Entertainment (it's got a red label and has the board game logo from the 1980s on it if you come across one) on 5.25" disk) and an original Apple III manual (but no Apple III).
I only have one of the IIe systems today and have only a few of the parts from this deal (I also still have the SE FDHD from the garage sale) but seven years later consider it an excellent conquest. What I couldn't use others could–I gave one of the IIes to a friend. Not everything worked out of the lot–there was a half-dead ImageWriter II and a mouse without a ball among other things and some stuff got axed for parts but I got years of enjoyment from the deal.
I was over at a music store talking to my mom about what I was going to do with one of my Macs. A lady who was there overheard me talking about older Macs and asked me if I wanted any. Turns out she was a tech coordinator for a school and they were about to dump a bunch of Apple IIe computers! I was only 14 at the time so any local pickup was a good thing–I was too young to be eBaying and the last thing I wanted to see was a bunch of good machines go into a dumpster (which is where they were headed if I hadn't come in!)
A few days later I loaded up my mom's minivan with three Apple IIes, three ImageWriter IIs, three huge composite IIe monitors, a whole box of 5.25" floppy drives (UniDisk and DuoDisk), an entire folder of Apple stickers (which I have sadly misplaced since then), manuals for everything, a few unopened boxes of blank 5.25" disks, a ton of serial mice (the rare Mouse IIe and Mouse IIc kind!), the original system disks for each machine, and a disk notcher! (I could have had about seven more but I didn't have room in either the van or my house!)
To make it even better–a few days before I met this lady I had scored a sweet garage sale conquest–for $21 I got a Mac SE FDHD, a MacTilt stand, several original Apple II games (including an excellent version of the old Parker Bros game "Clue" published by (I think) Virgin Entertainment (it's got a red label and has the board game logo from the 1980s on it if you come across one) on 5.25" disk) and an original Apple III manual (but no Apple III).
I only have one of the IIe systems today and have only a few of the parts from this deal (I also still have the SE FDHD from the garage sale) but seven years later consider it an excellent conquest. What I couldn't use others could–I gave one of the IIes to a friend. Not everything worked out of the lot–there was a half-dead ImageWriter II and a mouse without a ball among other things and some stuff got axed for parts but I got years of enjoyment from the deal.