Osborne 1 prices (was: On Generations of People and Computers )

From: Paul E Coad <pcoad_at_crl.com>
Date: Sat Apr 26 19:12:10 1997

On Sat, 26 Apr 1997, Sam Ismail wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Apr 1997 BigLouS_at_aol.com wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> 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.
>

I remember seeing Apple II's (vanilla) for sale. The salesman told
me about how much better this other machine (II+?) was since the II
only had integer BASIC and uppercase. This was not too long after I
had my first exposure to computers and was dying to get one of my own.

I also remember seeing Apple III's and Atari 800's on sale at Weinstock's.
There was a strange time for a while in the late 70's and early 80's when
many department stores had a "computer department". This was the case
in Sacramento, was it like that in other cities?

--pec
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