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

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Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:

>Mitchell Spector wrote:
>>     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.
>
>    In your dreams, maybe. Sure, anyone can luck-off and find a ROM-01
>system like the one you describe above at a garage sale for $50 or,
>even, $15. As such finds are snapped up, it is getting harder to find
>sellers who do not know which end is up-- who do not know, for example,
>that you can sell just the keyboard for $25 and the mouse for $10.
>Without much trouble, you can get $30-$50 for the monitor, $20 for a
>platinum 5.25" drive and a bit more for a 3.5" drive. Then, you can pull
>the power supply and sell it for $30-$40. Finally, you can pull the 01
>ROM and VGC to sell for $30 to a ROM-00 machine owner.

Yup.  Break up the system and you can get more.  Interestingly,
a 15khz monitor is extremely prized by the Amiga crowd.  I've
seen some being sold for crazy amounts.  It wouldn't take more
than a cable to connect to the Amiga to pass the AppleColor RGB
as a "Commodore compatible" unit and sell it for more.

Considering these monitors are as rare for the Amiga as for the
IIGS, I'm always surprised when people are less willing to pay
for the one with the Apple label.  Is the "Apple II" affiliation THAT
bad?