First post, by luckybob
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You might have seen me post over in the Retro Activity thread: What retro activity did you get up to today? and/OR on facebook, or over at /r/retrobattlestations/
I've been dicking around all day and have more pictures of the haul!
Album #1 (Apple II) >>> https://imgur.com/a/81wCm
There is also a box of boring mice and keyboard cables.
I'm going to get started on the IBM stuff later tonight and tomorrow. TL;DR at bottom.
The person I got this all from I will call John. Not their real name, but it makes telling a story better. Last month, there was a Craigslist listing advertising a massive amount of IBM parts for like $2100 with promises you could "double your money". His pictures were less than flattering as the first pic was a color cga monitor with its plastic bashed to all hell. I didn't have that kind of money, so I forgot about it. 3 weeks pass, the add is still there. Long email chain later, we come to an agreement. He already sold a couple of the cpu units and needed to get rid of the rest to make room in his house. To my amazement he was willing to let me have everything on the promise that I pay him a percentage of everything I get for it. INORITE? The surprises don't end there, because when I get to his home, he tells me about another equal pile of Apple II stuff I can have for the same deal. SHIT YEA! He even had 2 helpers there and we had my pickup truck And John's car loaded in like 10 minutes. John then followed me to my house, and helped me unload everything into my garage. Seriously! Who does this? I felt like kissing the guy, but it would REALLY have been awkward for him.
I would REALLY appreciate some pointers and tips when it comes to testing all this. I mean maybe not the floppy cards, if I sell a bad one, I'll just ship another. I'm thinking of getting some power resistors so I can test the power supplies under load. Tested units sell better.
Speaking of selling. I will be offloading 95% of everything I got. It was part of the deal I made to get these parts. Thankfully I'm paying John a percentage, so I have no obligation to jack up prices. That said, NOTHING IS FOR SALE. yet. I don't want to give ebay 10% so once I am ready I will take offers (on another site, probably VCFED). What is left will go to ebay. I'm thinking of keeping a few choice pieces for myself and paying a percentage of market value to John. I do want to "pimp out" an Apple II for myself. ^.^ This can all change, nothing is really set in stone yet. I just want to get a proper inventory before I move forward.
Tonight/tomorrow I have about 5 boxes of cards, 3 boxes of power supplies to get through. These look mostly to be IBM PC/XT/AT era stuff.
TL;DR - Got a truck load of PC/XT/AT & Apple II stuff on consignment. John (fake name) is a real stand up guy, go look at the pictures. Also nothing is for sale, yet. More to come.
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