The former;
these things are being bought up by Mac fans as
part of the Mac's heritage.
That's the only reason I'd have any interest in it. I remember playing
with a Lisa right about the time the 128K Mac showed up. My oldest Mac
is a 512Ke that my mother bought new, full-price as a 512K and paid to
upgrade (new ROMs, double-sided drive).
My same exact experience...
I'm also a big Motorola 68K fan. One of my
favorite jobs ever was hacking
COMBOARDs in assembly and C (8Mhz 68000 w/32K SRAM up to 2Mb DRAM).
I'd worked with the IBM ARTIC card; it was 80186-based, but it would
have been so much cooler and easier to program for had it been a 68k-
based board.
Honestly, in
better times, I'd probably pay up to $250. These aren't
those times...
No kidding. The seller is a Mac shop that's closing its doors. Most of his
stuff is overpriced, so I assumed that this was too - he's asking $300. I
did pick up a couple of Asante boxy SCSI<->Ethernet adapters, complete with
docs, cables and software for $8, bare box only, $5. I want to turn an SE
or Plus into a localtalk gateway with that software from Apple's ftp site
that has been mentioned here once or twice.
I've got one of those from another manufacturer; Nova or something similar.
I'll go back to the sale on Sunday and see what
hasn't moved and offer the
guy about 20% of his asking prices on some stuff and see how bad he wants
to sell it.
Sounds like a plan.
Regards,
-dq