Re: Prices

[Phil Beesley <pb14@le.ac.uk>]

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In article <7f2nkh$q7r$1@newnews.global.net.uk>, Nigel Condry
<condry@globalnet.co.uk> wrote:

> What kind of prices do Apple // computers sell for, and where are the best
> places to look for good machines?


Price: The IIe and Europlus are pretty common in the UK but nowhere
near as common as in the US (or France even). I got mine for free with
a whole bunch of standard expansion cards and drives. Unusual cards (eg
3.5" Unidisk controller for the IIe) fetch a premium because they are
so rare over here. For a basic usable system (system box, composite
display, 5.25" drive, 80 column card) expect to pay up to �25. Second
hand expansion cards go for anything between �0.00 to �10. 

The IIgs is very unusual in the UK as Apple deliberately did not market
it here. About twelve years passed between reading about one in a
magazine and actually buying one. Fully expanded IIgs are almost
non-existent and I only know of a couple of people who have
accelerators for them. For something so unusual, there is no price
guide.

Finding them: auctions, second hand shops, car boot sales, skips (US:
dumpsters), radio rallies. For adverts, try MicroMart, Loot and other
similar classified papers.

Phil