Re: Profile formatting

[shack@southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <19990914010542.29465.00006579@ng-bk1.aol.com>,
Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:

>>Profiles are collector's items. You don't restore them to use them for
>>daily work. For this purpose I have my 200MHz Pentium pc. The Apple
>>stuff is just for fun.
>
>I use both my Apple stuff and my PC.  I really believe
>that unless an Apple item is "mint condition," it
>really should go into the hands of those who plan to
>use it.  Besides, collectors usually like the "new in
>the box" stuff.  For example, if I see a new in the
>box IIGS, I'd grab it and wait a decade or so.  Look
>at what happened to original Apple IIs.  The beat up
>ones in schools, they sell for a few bucks each.  But
>the "new in the box" mint condition collectable ones,
>THOSE are the ones that go for $600 on eBay!

And I got one of those for $15 back in '95. Pretty dad gum cool. 

>If a Profile is dead (as in dead logic boards or fried
>mechanisms), it is going to end up like the school
>beat up Apple IIs, NOT collectable.  In that case,
>why not put them to use?

Then you hand 'em over to someone needing parts to fix theirs. Maybe I could
resurrect my two non functioning Profiles that way. At least I have a pair
that work though.
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