Re: price on //e

[buggie@ben07.unm.edu (stephen e buggie)]

When the price drops this low, its all a matter of the seller's give-away
philosophy.   Certainly, a working IIE is _worth_ more than five bucks!

Steve Buggie




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Mitchell Spector (spec@vax2.concordia.ca) wrote:
: In article Tom Kruesel <cmu320@freenet.mb.ca> writes...

: >Am buying one for a friend.  What's a //e and 80 col. card 
: >worth?  (Cpu only)

:     Most of the time they're given away free (one school out
: here in Montreal was trying to get rid of over 100 Apple IIe
: computers, and in the end sent them to a recycling plant--I
: did try my best get them donated to a charity, though I doubt
: they followed my advise). If you want to know how much it is
: worth, I would say roughly about $5.

:     Note that you will require a 5.25 floppy drive as well
: as a controller card for it to be of any use. You will also
: need a monochrome screen if you wish to display 80 columns
: text (and replace the 80 columns card with an Extended 80
: Columns card to run most IIe software out there, as many
: titles required 128K and Double-Hi-Res graphics mode).

: Mitchell Spector
: spec@vax2.concordia.ca