Re: How much for a GS?

[ladyp <phoenizian@gmail.com>]

On Nov 6, 10:55 am, schmidtd <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> On Nov 6, 1:40 pm, ladyp <phoeniz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > $10 - $30 for a basic.  with or without the monitor?
>
> Without.  Monitors are very much dominated by shipping costs.  The
> IIgs RGB monitor can fetch high prices at times, though - once in a
> while, a couple of buyers get a wild hair and absolutely, positively
> need to have a bidding war over one.
>
> > What's a loaded GS worth.  SCSI card, 4 meg RAM, upgraded Transwarp ,
> > some kind of hard drive in each.  Focus in one, CF card in another.  I
> > also have a video overlay, but not sure how to use it.  Also have a
> > Sonic blaster.  Also have some monitors.  I bought a couple of CDs and
> > have a CD drive.
>
> > Have some ZIP SCSI drives and loads of disks.
>
> That depends.  I've seen loaded systems that are demonstrably working
> fetch pretty good prices.  If you demonstrate that it's a whole turn-
> key package, that's a plus.  If not, it's probably more advantageous
> to part it out.  Those said wild hairs happen over accelerators from
> time to time, too.  But it's not a sure thing - like all retroware,
> it's all down to the whims of the buyers that particular week.

I haven't been following the prices on equipment for years.  I was
wondering if there is a market for retroware.  I see that vintage Macs
is used interchangably.

 As I recall I had a large OS 6xx which didn't fit on the 3.5"
installation floppy.  The partitioned 100meg ZIP disks made a huge
hard drive.   I think each disk cost $10 when new.   Each accelerator
needed its own OS so it was an economical HD.  One of the great things
about the ZIP drive was the floppy could be used as a data disk where
one could convert the data between Mac language and PC language.  I
forget what the software was that could do this.   It was a fun
machine.  The new Macs may be beautiful to look at but they aren't as
much fun as the GS.

Sandy