Re: Apple II's as collector's items?

[be946@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Simon C.Hall)]

War Lib. Canada (dmanzer@wimsey.com) writes:
> I have about 10 Apple II Pluses piled up (a few clones but
> mostly genuine); also an original Apple II complete with 16K
> "memory blocks" - serial no. A2S2 - 26169, motherboard (c) 1978.
> There's also parts of an Apple III (anyone remember Business
> BASIC?)
> 
> Do these items have any antique value? Are they likely to ever 
> have? I wonder if they're worth the trouble of storing for the 
> next 20 years. Actually I'm on the point of giving the whole lot 
> of them the deep six, but only about 1 million Apple II Pluses 
> were made, and every time one of those original Apple plastic 
> cases gets heaved out and recycled into shopping bags there's
> one less of them in the world that will never get replaced.
> Or am I just being overly sentimental.
> 
> Thoughts anyone?
> 
> Regards, D.M.
> 
> * I used to work for an Apple dealer, and we were selling II+'s 
> with serial numbers in the high 900 thousands when the //e came out.


I have 4 II+'s and 1 II. I still use the II+'s well only one. The one I'm
typeing this on. Sooner or later they will be Valuable (depends what what
VALUE means) I would not ditch them. If you do let me know I would love to
add them to my network (:

It's never to old to be useful (:

regards Jim aka Simon
be946@freenet.carleton.ca


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