Things of value I own or have owned, etc.
Things of value I own or have owned, etc.
Well, of course the most valuable thing I have owned was my Apple 1, and I won't tell you how much I got for it, but I will tell you
Sallem's commission on the sale was $1500,00, and that did not put a very big dent in te gross.
The rest of the stufff I will list here is interesting because I gpt ot all at no cost to me, from two people that bought it all from me in thr first place. You can't beat that price with a stick. :lol: I sold a complete SOL=20 system to a gentleman who was very crippled with artheritis. His plan was to write a series of tech manuals describing all of the escape sequences amd switch settings etc/ for every printer of the market. (He self-published three of them befoe his death in 1983, and his wife gave me a set when she gave me the computer) It had dual Micropolis disc drives, with aa Vector Graphcs Micropolis disk controlleer, and three stati memory boards. The compute was sold with a product whose name escapes me , but was the only modified IBM Correcting Selectric to ever be accepted by IBM foor their field service support. I still have it ifanyone is interested in a truly rare vintage peripheral from about 1978 or 79. It is like new, having ben used for only a short time befre the customer changed from the SOL-30 to an Apple II+ and a CIOTH 8510 printer. So the Selectric is like new, with maybe 2500 to 5000 characters typed on it.
At the same time as she gave me the SOL-20 she also gave me the Apple II+ which they had prchased from me. I still have it, too.
Now, about ten years ago I got a call from the wife of a GP family doctor who was alsso a friend and customer. She said that the doctor was retiring and the were movig to Michigan, and when she asked him what to do with the computers he told her to give them back to me if I wanted them, otherwise take tem to the recycle center. She called me and I, of course, grabbed them immediately. What I got was threee Osborne 1's with all upgrades installed, double densit disk drives, 80 column ddisplay options and monitors to go with them, two Osborne modems, a hard disk (10 meg. I think) all kinds of spare cables, a spare keyboard and one set of docs. She gave me severa; loose leaf binders aand a ton of other stuff including two sets of FOG library disks (about 1000 total.
I don't think anyone can beat those deals. I sold them bth all that equipment and suplies, at my usual miserable profit, and then got it all back free! Not bad for poor kud from "Lake Woebegone, Minnesota"!
Ray
