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From: Marty <Marty_at_itgonline.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Thursday, 21 May 1998 22:47
Subject: Re: Prices to pay for old computers...
> Are you refering to the original 16KB-64KB motherboard 5150 PC or do
> you mean the 64KB-256KB motherboard 5150 PC? I have only seen two
> original 16KB-64KB 5150 PC's. I'm certain there must be plenty of them
> out there but I never see them. I see the 64KB-256KB motherboard
> 5150's everywhere.
>
> Marty
>
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>Subject: Prices to pay for old computers...
>Author: classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu at internet
>Date: 5/21/98 5:45 AM
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> email: desieh_at_southcom.com.au
> desieh_at_bigfoot.com
> museum_curator_at_hotmail.com
> Apple Lisa Web Page:
> http://www.southcom.com.au/~desieh/index.htm
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> One of the best examples of this would be the original IBM PC.......
> now apparently the dudes on ebay say $100 for a IBM PC well if you have
one
> in its original box will all manuals and
> all original parts, manuals, disks etc this would be a reasobabley fair
> price to pay. .999% of all IBM PC I come accross
> have been upgraded,
> treated badly, hacked, and far from thier original condiditon, and there
are
> no manuals in site..............
> but if you have one with only the CPU at that it well, perhaps $0-10 is a
> fairer price........
> You cant just say that xxxxx computer is worh $xx amount...... you have to
> allow for some systems that have manuals, disks,
> boxes etc.............
>
> systhems in these conditions are few and far between............
>
> this is just my opinion on the subject so I would like to hear other
peoples
> comments..............
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yes I am talking about the original 16kb-64kb model............
I wounder how many IBM PCs are still out there with only cassette input and
16KB of RAM............
no floppy drives.............
oh well
Received on Fri May 22 1998 - 02:22:29 BST