Aquarius II on eBay didn't sell at over $400

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Keys wrote: For fairly good reason. As lame as that computer was, folks like me who first learned to program on them are fanatics about it. If I had the money last year when a complete Aquarius II system with the exceedingly rare disk drive, 4-color printer and other goodies sold for over $500 (I think it might have been as high as $700) I would have dropped that. I'm fairly sure there are less than 100 Aquarius II computers in existence. Radofin test marketed them around the world but the product got canceled before it sold in any sort of numbers. I have one that I got by way of Australia from a developer there who was writing a teletext system on it. I never realized that they were actually sold in stores until I came across the one that sold last year. In fact, the guy who apparently got the rest of the stuff from that developer (through a third party) can be found here: http://members.aol.com/paparotcy/aquarius/protos.html ...including the 1541 disk drive adapter wedge. The one that just closed on eBay was bought by the seller at a store in Finland in 1984. So they were sold in stores, but in VERY limited numbers. Here's the most recently updated Aquarius FAQ: http://www.digitpress.com/faq/aquarius.txt -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]