Re: Why apple2

["The Basement" <swolfe1@mindspring.com>]

Otter wrote in message <63575.otter@oz.SpammersWillBeKilled&Eaten.net>...
>On Fri, 28 Nov 1997 09:21:47 -0500,
>The Basement  <swolfe1@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>Tony Mori wrote in message <346FB6C6.3464@NOSPAMcompusource.net>...
>>>
>>>REALLY good weekend. Passed on some stuff, too. The guy I bought the
>>>Atari from, had a IIc, Monitor IIc, and mouse, and s/w. (no more
>>>carrying room).I'll see him next weekend. Also found a total of another
>>>(3) IIc's there. Need a way to check IIc ROM versions on the road!!
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>I wish they had those kind of deals in my area!  They were charging 500$
for
>>a //plus!
>>
>
>Sounds like some people in your area are really living deep in the
>past.  Misti (my ][+) was only $6.50, and she came with a pair of Disk
>][ drives, Apple Color monitor, Videx 80 column card (surprisingly
>with all the hardware and jumpers needed to make it work), serial
>card, parallel card, Z-80 card, and language card.  All I had to add
>to her was a second floppy controller (with 2 Disk ][ drives), and an
>Epyx joystick which I paid a whopping 35 cents for.
>
>This is about the most heavily upgraded ][+ I've ever seen.  Now I
>just hafta figure out how to do that shift key modification...
>
>--Otter
>
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People in my area just don't understand the decline in value of an object...
Plus we don't have very many computer hobbiests in the area...   Just me and
a few of my friends