Re: WTB: Mint condition //e

[labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth)]

In article <7a7h7h$hua$1@opal.southwind.net>, Randy Shackelford
<shack@onyx.southwind.net> wrote:

> The white key style //e's don't discolor since they have that sprayed on 
> finish, the same as ][s and ][ pluses. It chips off instead. I rebuilt my
> //e in a plastic case from the italic key style //e when my old case became
> badly chipped. I subsequently unearthed an early rev A //e with the sprayed
> on finish in pretty good shape. Also I have a new in box, never used beige
> //e case top so I can build the ultimate mint condition //e should I choose
> to use it for that.
Hmm. never thought of that. Mine is the metal sprayed on type but I never
thought of it in a special way, I thought all 'original' IIes were like
that.

> If you don't think the beige plastic discolors, you haven't seen many Apple 
> IIIs or beige Mac Pluses. I had a heck of a time finding a presentable III
> since most were used in offices where people didn't worry about having the
> sun discolor their stuff.
Well, what I meant was that for a lot of it, it doesn't discolor as badly
as platinum plastic. Stuff still discolors when it's under sunlight or
unltraviolet light, but a lot of times if you don't have a perfectly
untouched one next to it, you wouldn't really notice...or else I've just
been lucky and only seen things which were lightly touched by sun or UV,
all over and uniformly...

BTW, what's a good price for an Apple III (or maybe even III+) and where
would be the best place to look? When people seel them online, they tend
to want/get too much for them (IMO) and I have yet to see one in my
standard 'circuit' of places and stuff...