Apple IIe for $700 + somewhat OT

Jup, heaving an A2 with a Woz signature, and the shows video would make a nice setup ... well, I gues even I would have payed more than 50 Bucks - unlike for a pastic Corvette (*1) Gruss H. (*1) Over here (Germany) the Corvett still has an image of a low level pimp car. During the late 70s, early 80s, when the Dollar started to decline quite fast, Chevrolet forgot to raise the price in Marks (to earn more), which led to a dramatic price drop. At some point, a VW Beetle convertible did cost substantial more than Corvette. While the average buyer still wasn't so much jumping on, a whole generation of low level wanabes (I just keep the more apropriate names for myself) bought them. Since the sale of US GM cars wasn't part of the main Opel business, nobody over here realy cared - and the Detroit was extremly happy with soaring sales numbers ... just no real profit, since they had a lot of blonn engines etc. It was also the time when American car engeneering was not at it's best, so it gave US cars a bad name in technology the very same time. It's a blow US carmakers still feel. And when their European companies tried to build the new models based on US designed platforms (and designs) 2-3 years ago, their market share droped also. -- VCF Europa 4.0 am 03./04. Mai 2003 in Muenchen http://www.vcfe.org/