11 Jun
2013
11 Jun
'13
6:47 a.m.
On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, David Riley wrote:
On Jun 10, 2013, at 10:46 PM, Josh Dersch <derschjo
at gmail.com> wrote:
I'm not sure about 1998, but Apple could still service them up through at
least the mid 1990s. I worked with a number of educational users who had
entire labs filled with Apple II machines and they were still sending them
out for service in the mid 1990s under existing service contracts. Those
Apple II machines have long since been replaced with cheap PCs though.
In that regard, I can't help but wonder what has become of all those
machines, which depending on the computer lab, were pretty much everything
eBay item: 181152615614
$23,100.
Obviously not unmodified; a number of the original ceramic 4116s have
been replaced with plastic ones. Nice white ceramic 6502, though. This
one is definitely worth more than the average, but I dunno about $23k.
If my II+ or IIgs ever gets above $1000, I'm selling them without a
second thought and using the money to build an emulator. I like them,
but not THAT much.
The seller claims to have taken it in to Apple for service 15 years ago.
Was Apple servicing original Apple IIs in 1998? from original II up through the IIe platinum and IIgs.
In hindsight, I
wish I would have thought to work something out to save a few dozen
IIgs
systems since I'd love to set up a small portable educational lab today,
but I can't justify spending the kind of money that collectors are willing
to spend on individual IIgs machines.