Re: IIGS for sale

[sheercon@earthlink.net]

Jason Whorton wrote:

> Please allow me to chime in with... for that price, one could buy a slow
> Pentium PC with fairly modern everything that would be much more capable of
> doing modern computing tasks.  If it had rare hardware or software, it might
> be worth that, but I didn't see mention of it.  If anyone cares, ask me
> about my theory on what I call "the gold plated Pinto".
>
> Thank you,
> Jason Whorton
> http://www.microxl.com/oldcomputers/main.html
>
> Supertimer wrote in message
> <19990715003857.12882.00000517@ng-fr1.aol.com>...
> >andsand@infoave.net (James + Susan Sandlin) wrote:
> >
> >>For sale: IIGS with a 3.5 and 5.25 and stylewriter printer and many, many
> >>different programs (too varied to mention) for $500.  Everything works
> >>perfectly fine, I just no longer need an outdated computer.  Will even pay
> >>shipping fee.  Email back if interested.
> >
> >I'm not in the market for one, but just like to add that that price would
> >be much more reasonable if it also came with a monitor, a large hard
> >drive (say 500MB or more), an upgraded accelerator (say at least
> >12.5Mhz) TWGS or ZipGS, and a large memory card (preferably 6MB
> >or 8MB).  A good speed modem would also help.
> >
> >For example, a system with 300MB hard disk, monitor and drives,
> >memory, and a 10Mhz TransWarp GS went for $350 recently.  Now
> >if your system has much more software and better hardware than
> >this, it would certainly be worth $500.  Sadly, it may be that you
> >have to break up the system to get the full value.

Tell us your gold plated Pinto theory...