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

[Charles Stephens <devnull@dobbs.eng.sun.com>]

>>>>> "ST" == Supertimer  <supertimer@aol.com> writes:

 ST> dan@home.org (Dan) wrote:
 >> On 1 Aug 1998 08:59:19 GMT, supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
 >> 
 >>> !smentzer@ecom.net (Steve Mentzer) wrote:
 >> 
 >>> A decked ot GS with a 230MB external hard drive, seven peripheral
 >>> cards, a large memory card plus the 1MB Apple one floating around
 >>> in the closet, a modem, and a printer (possible DeskJet) will fetch
 >>> 3 digit prices IF the user BREAKS UP the system and sell EACH
 >>> separate piece SEPARATELY.
 >>> 
 >> 
 >> I agree such a system is worth more in pieces than as a whole system.
 >> 
 ST> (snip)
 >> 
 >> Granted, I was extremely lucky, in the right place at the right time,
 >> but asking $700 for *any* Apple // in 1998 in insane.

 ST> Sure, $700 may be a little overboard...UNLESS the printer was
 ST> some kind of LaserWriter and the monitor was an SVGA unit
 ST> via a Second Sight.

 ST> We can't assume these things, so we don't know.

 ST> One thing for sure is that on a LOADED system, by breaking it
 ST> up it is worth MUCH more than the $50 Mitch was trying to pass
 ST> the system as....

However, just asking might yield results.  I got Orca/C and Orca/M for
about US$40 from a lot that was selling for about US$300.

cfs
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