Re: FS Loaded //Gs, Software, MISC.

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article buggie@mirac.unm.edu (stephen e buggie) writes...

>Jeff Barbanell (z600660a@bc.seflin.org) wrote:
[snip]
>> Price for everything mentioned above is $700.00 plus you pay
>> shipping.
>
>Mine is a general comment, not focused only on this ad.
>
>Sellers who are bailing out of Apple II always want to sell a complete
>SYSTEM, yet most of us who remain loyal to A2 already have a complete
>SYSTEM.   We also have wives who believe we have too many computers
>already (What a delusion, eh?)   Thus, we are shopping for accessories,
>not for complete systems.
>
>I'd suggest that sellers take offers first on the accessories, then ask
>for bids on the collection of residuals that are left over.

    To add to your comment, I think it is totally unrealistic, to say
the least, when someone asks US$700 for an Apple IIgs system. No IIgs
is worth that today--unless we're talking about a "Mark Twain", with,
say, a box loaded with several Apple made Ethernet cards, as well as
a couple of Video Overlay Cards and SuperDrive controllers thrown in
for good measure. ;-)

    A stock Apple IIgs setup consisting of a CPU, 3.5 and 5.25 floppy
drives, RGB monitor and 1 MB memory is worth maybe $50 today. If you
add extra memory, a hardrive and accelerator you might be able to get
double or triple that price.

    Incidentally, yesterday afternoon I picked up 25 MHz 386DX machine
with 4 MB RAM, 512K VGA card, 1.44 MB floppy and 90 MB hardrive for
a whopping total of $5 Cdn (which translates to about $2.75 US). For
the fun of it, I installed the original Wolfenstein 3-D and tried it
out. Runs full screen in 256 colors, and at a higher and smoother
frame rate than the IIgs version. :) It'll even go online and run
Netscape, among other things. Of course I still *heavily* value and
enjoy using my Apple IIgs, but I can recognize it has little or no
market value. There is a distinct difference between what a machine
is worth monetarily, and what it is worth in terms of usefulness.
The two are not directly linked despite what some may like to believe.

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca