Charlie wrote:
"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message V7CdnYojE-uGZFzUnZ2dnUVZ_vvinZ2d@giganews.com">news:V7CdnYojE-uGZFzUnZ2dnUVZ_vvinZ2d@giganews.com...Charlie wrote:"schmidtd" <schmidtd@my-deja.com> wrote in message 179014bd-a73e-4491-8e73-a33d9271f435@v38g2000yqb.googlegroups.com">news:179014bd-a73e-4491-8e73-a33d9271f435@v38g2000yqb.googlegroups.com...On Mar 18, 1:24 pm, nntha...@hotmail.com wrote:They're common as hell - but good luck finding one whose case hasn't turned the color of coffee-with-cream. -------------Common indeed. They're the longest-running II produced by Apple: http://apple2history.org/history/appy/ahc.html -------------<Although the chart shown is probably correct that the platinum //e is the longest-running II produced it may not be completely accurate as to the length of time others before it were produced. For instance the chart shows the II ending when the production of the Apple II+ (first quarter of 1979) but in fact the Apple II was actively marketed well into 1980 (third quarter and maybe longer) along with the Apple II+.The actual end date for Apple II availability may be dealer-dependent. I was offered the option by Computerland at the end of December, 1980. -michaelMaybe. I went to four computer stores (the only ones I knew about within an hour's drive) in August of 1980 and all four had both for sale. I ended up buying an Apple ][+ from a little store that operated out of an old basement in Princeton, NJ. Although the prices varied from store to store, there was never a discount for the older model.
My experience, too. Regardless of Apple, Inc.'s guidance, most stores quickly realized that some customers preferred the ][ and some the ][+, and no discount was warranted. I don't know when Apple officially stopped selling the ][, but you can be sure that if they didn't offer to buy back unsold stock from dealers, the dealers would continue to offer their ][ stock until it was sold. -michael ******** Note new website URL ******** NadaNet and AppleCrate II for Apple II parallel computing! Home page: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."