Re: FS: Apple IIc Flat Panel Display Monitor

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Tim Haynes wrote:

><bob@bob.us> wrote in message news:cdhp9h$t4o$2@News.Dal.Ca...
>> >   From: karen@uab.edu (bathswife)
>> >
>> >Selling the scarce AppleIIc Flat Panel Display on ebay.  I'm selling a
>> >lot of Apple II and Apple III system items now and over the next month
>> >(or two) that were stored in a retired Apple retailer's house for the
>> >last decade and a half or so.  A lot of items are still in boxes and
>> >shrinkwrap.  The Flat Panel Display originally sold in 1984 (I think?)
>> >and the price on the box (it's still on there) was $599.00!
>> >
>> >Here's a link to the Flat Panel Display:
>> >[4]
>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5108631820&ssPageName=ST
>> >RK:MESE:IT
>>
>> geez........this thing sold for $792 bucks U.S. and the seller couldn't
>> even test it cause they don't have a //c which means it sold "as-is".
>
>Most of that price was probably the original box, believe it or not.

Yep.  The surest mark of the difference between a "user" and a
"collector" is that the collector values the box more than the
contents.  ;-)

-michael

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