Apple Computer Collecting

From: nick_at_computer-history.org <(nick_at_computer-history.org)>
Date: Sun Apr 4 17:07:50 2004

The Apple IIc LCD panel was a cool idea in concept but poorly executed. If
you track one down make sure the display is acceptably bright. I'm
currently selling mine on eBay as the display is too dim to do any real work
with.

Nick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Witchy" <witchy_at_binarydinosaurs.co.uk>
To: "'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'"
<cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 6:27 PM
Subject: RE: Apple Computer Collecting


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cctalk-bounces_at_classiccmp.org
> > [mailto:cctalk-bounces_at_classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of ghldbrd_at_ccp.com
> > Sent: 03 April 2004 00:02
> > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> > Subject: Re: Apple Computer Collecting
> >
> > price, for nothing else than the color. I picked up a IIc+
> > not knowing it was the fastest Apple II built, and that to me
> > makes it sorta collectable. Now if I could find the LCD
> > display for it, I'd really have something.
>
> The IIc+ had an LCD display? I've got a IIc+ but nothing to run on it
since
> it has the 3 1/2" drive instead of the 5 1/4"......any pix or info on the
> LCD?
>
> > Almost forgot, the early Lisas are commanding pretty good
> > prices on e-pay, but that is an exception. The later Lisas
> > were upgraded to Mac O/S, and they aren't as valuable.
>
> This is the point I chip in with a gnashing-of-teeth-style tale of woe.
> Yesterday I picked up a nice condition ][GS with screen/floppies etc from
an
> ex-apple dealer, and he told me that he'd thrown
out/skipped/smashed/burned
> Mac 128s, Mac 512s, Lisa parts, *hundreds* of Lisa manuals including
LisaOS
> on twiggys, boxes of twiggy disks etc....
>
> 5 months ago.
>
> Still, he gave me a Lisa lapel badge so that's ok :-/
>
> Now excuse me while I go off to weep into me beer.....
>
> --
> Adrian/Witchy
> Owner & Webmaster, Binary Dinosaurs
> www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - possibly the UK's biggest online computer
museum
> www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk - ex-monthly gothic shenanigans :o(
>
>
Received on Sun Apr 04 2004 - 17:07:50 BST