Re: Limited Edition Apple //GS.

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <5j0h76$c$1@darla.visi.com>, Nathan Mates <nathan@visi.com> wrote:
>In article <01bc49be$07d2ca40$865388cf@ns.idirect.com>,
>Snafue <snafue@idirect.com> wrote:
>>I have a "Limited Edition" Apple //GS with Steve Wozniak's signature
>>"WOZ" on it. I was just wondering if this particular //GS is of any
>>collectable value?
>
>   Best estimates are that there's on the order of some 50,000 cases
>with that signature. [Woz did not take a marker out and sign them all.
>The sig is reprinted.] A fair number of GSs with that sig on the front
>are ROM 00s, which can't run any of the latest GS software, and are
>less valuable in that form.

I disagree. Just like a 128K Mac and an integer only Apple ][, a ROM 0 
signature edition has a collectible appeal as an unmodified early production
box. Granted, usability is on par with these examples. That's why I snatched
the signature edition with ROM 0 and unupgraded, but not defective, VGC which
I spotted in a used computer store a few months ago. It complements my one 
owner signature edition box which sports a ROM 3 board and sits next to the
ol' 840.

>   Bottom line: nice to look at, probably not worth anything more
>than that.

FWIW, there are two signature editions on auctionweb as of this morning.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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