Re: FS: APPLE IIGS

[pubpc1@library.ucla.edu]

mrdeejay@juno.com wrote:
>FOR SALE:
>
>APPLE IIGS COMPUTER
>* COLOR MONITOR
>* EXANDED MEMORY CARD
>* TWO EXTERNAL DRIVES
>* MANUALS
>* SOFTWARE
>* KEYBOARD
>* MOUSE
>
>$250 PPD.
>
>mrdeejay@juno.com
>
>I'm in the USA.


My advice is not to sell on usenet.  The people here sit around and
suggest shit prices and "donate it to a school" or "give it away"
is the common refrain.  This is an atmosphere caused by people trying
to get products cheap.  Usenet is not the best measure of an Apple
system's value.  To give you an idea, last November, at a local
users group BBS, I saw a IIgs system, like the above except with
4MB of memory and 105MB hard disk, sold for $390.  Fair deal, both
seller and buyer were happy.

I don't know what kind of stupid advice the seller would have faced
if he were to have posted on comp.sys.apple2.marketplace instead,
but I can imagine...

(I'll grant that different places may be different.  Here in LA,
most K-12 students don't even have a typewriter.  Schools can't
afford to dump their II computers.  An Apple IIe with AppleWorks
is worth a lot more than a typewriter in this case.  At one high
school that I know, for example, the Apple IIe and IIgs computers
have moved into the classrooms for teachers to use for gradekeeping
and printing handouts while the lab has now been invaded by mostly
PC and some Mac computers.  Heck, I know of a student who did her
thesis project on temperature regulation in lizards.  She used
radio controlled thermocouples that fed into an Apple IIe computer.
That setup would have cost at least $2000 for an SCSI input in a Mac
and a fortune for each thermocouple, but the IIe hardware recorded
data just as well.)

-Scott G.