Re: FS Loaded //Gs, Software, MISC.

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) writes...

>dan@home.org (Dan) wrote:
>>Granted, I was extremely lucky, in the right place at the right time,
>>but asking $700 for *any* Apple // in 1998 in insane.
> 
>Sure, $700 may be a little overboard...

    Umm, a little overboard? That is completely overboard. :)

>UNLESS the printer was some kind of LaserWriter and the monitor was 
>an SVGA unit via a Second Sight.

    Even then it would not be worth that much. As far back as 3 years
ago, I heard stories of first generation laser printers going for as
little as $5 at thrift shops (sounds like a good deal, but then they
didn't always include toner cartidges which can be extermely expensive). 
As for SVGA monitors, those can sell for as little as $50 these days for
a 14" model. Prices on new 15" and 17" models have really come down
these past few months, and much more affordable than you may think. Back 
in the spring I purchased a 14" monochrome VGA monitor for $10 Cdn, and
the new 17" monitor I purchased in the winter for $650 Cdn, now only 
costs $450-$475.

>We can't assume these things, so we don't know.
> 
>One thing for sure is that on a LOADED system, by breaking it
>up it is worth MUCH more than the $50 Mitch was trying to pass
>the system as....

    Go try selling a loaded Apple IIgs in your local newspaper
classified or to people in one of the misc.forsale.computers.*
groups with an asking price of several hundred dollars. See
what kind of reaction you get. Odd that the only group of people 
who'll see the price as justifiable are other IIgs users--then
again, maybe that is not so odd...

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca