willowmoon93
Experienced Member
Well yesterday was a really good day for me . . . one of the computers I got was a TRS-80 Model III !!! Finally, after about three years or so of searching, I finally have one! Yes, I could probably have got one via ebay, but the shipping charges have typically been pretty expensive. This one I got for $40 on a smaller auction site called "wensy.com". Basically what happened was that I stumbled upon the site and I was stunned to see that a TRS-80 was listed on it and it said local pickup only so I was kinda bummed for a second there until I saw that the seller is from Wisconsin (which is where I live!). Found out he only lives 40 miles away from me so the gas money would still be worth the trip if I won the auction. And I did win it!! Well he was going to be participating at a local card show as a vendor selling sports & gaming cards right in Green Bay this weekend so I could meet him there, which is even closer! Really great guy, very friendly -- and it the whole deal worked out so well with being so close by!
Well earlier in the morning yesterday I went to a local neighborhood rummage sale, ran across some really decent video games for the PlayStation (Parasite Eve and Simpsons Wrestling were $1 each, for example!). Also found a Commodore 64 (complete in box), w/1541 disk drive, and a box full of software all for $5 !!!! But it gets even better . . .
The really cool find over at one house was an Apple IIgs (with 4 MB of RAM -- via a Q RAM card), high-speed SCSI card, external 85 MB hard drive (Q Drive), AppleColor RGB Monitor, 3 1/2" & 5 1/4" disk drives, and an ImageWriter II! All of the Apple hardware is in their original boxes w/styrofoam inserts & manuals. Plus lots of software including some games, some still complete in their original boxes as well -- the whole shebang was $35 !!!!
Oh and about a couple of weeks ago I bought a Coleco ADAM computer w/Colecovision games, lots of software on digital data tapes (as well as some blank ones) for $50 via a local poster on craigslist. The seller described everything he had in the ad and said "make an offer." Well he accepted my $50 offer and when I got there, we were talking and he mentioned that one other person prior to me e-mailed him an offer of only $10 and he had to laugh at that one. As such, my $50 offer was much more reasonable. The cool thing is that the ADAM package included some ADAM users' group newsletters in with it which I didn't know until I got home with it. Really good reading, I'll have to say !!
Well earlier in the morning yesterday I went to a local neighborhood rummage sale, ran across some really decent video games for the PlayStation (Parasite Eve and Simpsons Wrestling were $1 each, for example!). Also found a Commodore 64 (complete in box), w/1541 disk drive, and a box full of software all for $5 !!!! But it gets even better . . .
The really cool find over at one house was an Apple IIgs (with 4 MB of RAM -- via a Q RAM card), high-speed SCSI card, external 85 MB hard drive (Q Drive), AppleColor RGB Monitor, 3 1/2" & 5 1/4" disk drives, and an ImageWriter II! All of the Apple hardware is in their original boxes w/styrofoam inserts & manuals. Plus lots of software including some games, some still complete in their original boxes as well -- the whole shebang was $35 !!!!
Oh and about a couple of weeks ago I bought a Coleco ADAM computer w/Colecovision games, lots of software on digital data tapes (as well as some blank ones) for $50 via a local poster on craigslist. The seller described everything he had in the ad and said "make an offer." Well he accepted my $50 offer and when I got there, we were talking and he mentioned that one other person prior to me e-mailed him an offer of only $10 and he had to laugh at that one. As such, my $50 offer was much more reasonable. The cool thing is that the ADAM package included some ADAM users' group newsletters in with it which I didn't know until I got home with it. Really good reading, I'll have to say !!
