Re: Various Accelerators

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On Sep 1, 1:27 am, Charlie Springer <R...@regnirps.com> wrote:
> Since I don't want to bother
> with the whole eBay thing, I wonder if you all could help with a little
> consensus on value?

Ebay will get you a good price, depending on who is in the market to
buy during the listing...


>
> A)  MCT SpeedDemon: Works fine. No docs.

I've seen them go for $100 to $250..  could you post a video of
the SpeedDemon's startup?  is there a startup graphic?

I will post a video of the Transwarp 1's startup.


>
> B)  AE Transwarp: Works fine. Boots from floppy and I had an CFFA card in and
> it booted Kyan KIX off that with no problem.

I've seen them go for $100 to $250

to me, it's worth about $100-200.  very nice card.


> C)  Titan - unknown. Does some stuff and then pretty flashing squares.
> Atermarket label Dapple Systems, an outfit that was always speed crazy and
> which I did some work for making floating point accelerators. They sold
> systems for scanning electron microscopes. Curio/Relic?

$100 to $250.  I have one here, it works great.  I would like to see a
manual.


>
> D)  Stellation Mill 6809 card. Lost the disks and docs. Used it briefly at
> IAI. Allowed a real-time OS called OS9 on the Apple.

W/O disks/docs, just a collectors item.  I would like to see OS9


>
> E)  Rocket Chip 5MHz Seems dead. Flashing squares. Curio/Relic?
>

Send it to reactivemicro and have them take pictures of the circuit.


> F)  Zip Chip Model 8000. Great. The beep is nearly ultrasonic. These are a
> kick in the ass. Works with everything I ever owned. Original box, disk, and
> docs look like new.

$200 +...  The fastest accelerator for the IIe.  And it doesn't take a
slot.

> G)  Or, the Zip 8 inside a //e with 1meg Apple RAM card, 3 1/2 controller, 5
> 1/4 controller, 80 col, new platinum keyboard (I have a case of NIB
> keyboards). Some yellowing of case. Super clean inside - like new.
> A2S128 3A2S2 E120SK0A2S2128

IIe: $50
1meg card :$50 - $100
31/2 controller: $80+
5 1/4 controller : $10
80 col: $10
new keyboard: $50???
zip 8: $200 +

as a package, $500.


>
> H) HEADLINE! Zip-II 4MHz found alive and well  in Apple //e with bad power
> supply!

cool...  $150 +



> I may go eBay on this one since there are some Japanese collectors who have
> wanted it in the past.

Japanese collectors pay excellent prices