21 Aug
2000
21 Aug
'00
1:56 p.m.
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, David Williams wrote:
The last red book, by itself sold for well over $100 on eBay.
OTOH I would be hard pressed to pay more than $25 for just the II.
I mention this not to set some "fair" price, but as an observation on how
difficult setting a fair price can be.
A better question is "what is it worth to YOU", then send guilt money as
needed.
What would you consider an original Apple II (not
the II+ or IIe) to
be worth? I received one and I'm going to cover their shipping cost
but want to give a little something extra for the system. Got a
bunch of original doc, software, cards etc. with it. The only minus
is the original boot rom was exchanged with an auto-start rom. But
I have an original rom which was swapped with the auto-start rom
in an Apple II+ so I can make it whole again. :-)
While thousands of them were produced, in my experience they are very
uncommon in the wild and not easy to come by.
I'd say an original one with original ROMs (Integer BASIC, etc), and
original motherboard, is worth about $100.
A little more if it comes with the original Apple ][ Reference manual (the
Red book) and the BASIC programming manual (the Blue book).