Re: Man oh man - woe is me..

[James Gray <jamesg@alaska.net>]

That is probably worth $50 today. My Salvation Army store has a Mac
Classic II for $30. I opened the About box and then closed it. The cpu
took a noticeable amount of time drawing the screen. They also have a Mac
Classic gathering dust. The II has a 40 meg hard drive and 4 megs of ram.
Originally the II was probably $2000 with the extra 2 meg of ram.

Anyone putting their retirement accounts into classic Apple products are
going to need to turn on all their computers to keep their houses warm in
the winter, because most of it isn't going to be worth a premium for a
hundred years. Even the accelerators are going for less than original
costs.

Imagine buying a Zip GS 9/32 for $225 in 1995. Even at 6% interest a year
that cash would be worth $300 today.

If you were to take the time and try to find people willing to pay more
for Apple II products, you probably could get more cash. It depends on
what your time is worth. After selling an Apple II+ to someone for $25,
you might have to provide 10 hours of tech support to help them do
something useful with it.

I picked up an Apple IIGS with an accelerator and scsi card for under $25.
If the person donating it to the Salvation Army had spent a month on
comp.sys.apple2 and a month on ebay, they would have known they could get
more for it. That time would have cut into any profits. Doing that kind of
research for all the junk in their garage would only pay off if more of
the stuff was worth something.

- James - [IMAGE]

Steve Schneider wrote:

> Who knew there was money in old Apple stuff? I just gave away two
> Apple ][+s and a fully equipped Apple //e with old Apple drives as
> well as the Duo-Disk drives, tons of legal software, a very modified,
> bells-and-whistled GBBS Pro BBS program, hard drives, an old Zip-Chip
> (8mhz-6502), RamDisks, modems, 80 column card, and two Apple monitors
> a year ago to a Goodwill-type, non-profit group.. for $0.00
> Everything was in working order except the Zip-chip.  What was all
> that worth (forget the software which was original with original vinyl
> binders and manuals - too numerous to remember) these days?
>
> Steve..
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