26 Apr
1997
26 Apr
'97
4:57 a.m.
On Sat, 26 Apr 1997 BigLouS(a)aol.com wrote:
Well, that's mostly because the machine isn't appreciated yet. Sure a
trillion were made, but has anyone actually ever SEEN one? Yeah, sure,
maybe a few of us, but I'm sure EVERYONE here can say they've seen a //e,
a //c or even a //gs, but not the original, plain old vanilla ][.
A //e would sell because it is still an extremely usable machine. Even
if you added the 16k language card to a ][ and gave it a lowercase ROM
and a shift-key mod, it still couldn't run a good deal of specific
applications that make the apple ][ usable these days. Thus the ][ is
considered a cripple.
Sam
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A guy at my
work is supposed to give me his, which he says is a ][, but he's not
always all there, so it could just be a ][+. But I would say a ][ is
probably worth about $100 with some accessories, like a disk drive and
monitor and the language card.
I just swapped a bare II/E for a Bare II. Going price for a bare IIE is about
$20 on the Apple newsgroups. Apple II's don't seem to be valued very much in
the Apple II newsgroup or for sale group.