Sam Ismail wrote:
>
> On Wed, 13 May 1998, Russ Blakeman wrote:
>
> > local grade school just dumped 25 of the original Apple II's for $100 for
> > all of them with the printers, software and drives. They've had them since
> > they were new under the "donation" system that Apple had for schools back
> > then. The person that boght them (not me) sold them for $25 a set and sold
> > them all in less than a week to people in this an surrounding counties -
> > people that are anything from collectors to users.
>
> That was a lucky person. In my estimation straight Apple ]['s are getting
> hard to find. I searched for 3 months last year and could only come up
> with 1. Of course this will all change when they start going for $1000 on
> eBay, and the 50,000 people who bought Apple ]['s back in 1977 catch wind
> of this and start emptying out their closets.
Probably Apple //'s, not the original release -- Apple didn't start
their big school giveaway program until 1981-2 as I recall. They
did have good school discounts early on though.
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
Received on Wed May 13 1998 - 20:56:18 BST