Re: Did anyone make a IIgs clone?

[spam@luddite.ca (Simon Williams)]

Bill Garber <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:

> At our GoodWill store locally, there is a Macintosh, in a
> tower case, and I often see people looking at it. Suddenly,
> they will turn to one another and say, "It's not a PC."
> I want to buy it, but I don't consider $90 for an aging
> computer of any kind in a GoodWill to be a great find. So,
> I wait, and wait, and one day it will either be gone, or
> be a price I feel is right. "It's not a PC". Many people
> don't even know what a Mac is around here, let alone an
> Apple II. 8)

Around here people seem to think old Mac's are made of gold... one of
the local junk shops has an LC475 priced at $150 while much newer and
more capable PCs go straight to the trash. When I asked the store owner
about it he seriously claimed it was the ideal computer for "doing
graphics"... I picked up an identical unit at Value Village for $10 ;-)
Here's a trick that seems to work... if you spot an Apple II in a pawn
shop that you're interested in, find an excuse to "pop the hood" then
shake your head sadly and say it's a shame the hard drive is missing...
probably get a few bucks knocked off the price :)
-simon
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