Re: cards cost

[Matt Jensen <no@spam.com>]

I certainly can.  There are lots of reasons why people would make
frenzied purchases of Apple II stuff.  The great thing about it, as I
see it, is that next to NONE of them are doing it for financial
reasons.  It's almost all for nostalgia or love of the machine.

I'm sort of a case in point myself.  I've never really been involved in
an Apple II purchase frenzy, but I did just buy a 16Mhz ZipGS for around
$300.  Why, you may ask?  There are several reasons.  One is because it
was a piece that was already verified to work at just about as fast a
speed as possible.  If I were to buy a slower one and try to upgrade,
what's to say that it would work?  I could end up having to buy 3 $100
cards and still not getting the same performance.

Another reason is that I just don't have the time to go searching for
bargains.  I'm sure there are still great deals out there on II stuff. 
Problem is, I don't have much time for searching, and I live in a small
city that doesn't have much of a used II market...I've never seen
anything II-related on a shelf around here.

For me, the nostalgia and love of the machine were worth far more than
the $300.  I have a job in my chosen field now (software engineering),
and I owe that, in part, to a IIGS.  I learned the ins and outs of
computers on one of those things.  It showed me what I'm good at and
what I want to do for a living.  I think that's great...I wanted to get
back to my roots (just in a way I couldn't afford to when I was 12.  My
old IIGS ran at 2.8Mhz and didn't have much memory or hard disk, etc.)

The real reason I wanted a fast ZipGS in the first place is so that I
could give a little back to the IIGS and its community.  I'm trying to
get back up to speed on programming the thing so that I can write some
software for it.  Anything I write will be free to anyone (source and
binaries.)  It's my way of saying "thanks" to the machine that put me
where I am today.

To me, that's worth a few bucks.

Louis Cornelio wrote:
> 
> Can you believe people make "frenzy purchases" of Apple II stuff??

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