Yeah I read about that before.  wow... what a waste! Those Lisa's are  
worth something now. I wonder if you could dig some of those up what  
they'd be like? Probably not functioning I would guess. That seems  
strange to me... Like they just dumped a bunch of them in a hole??

Elliott (Formerly Cyrus)
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On May 19, 2009, at 8:36 PM, Sterling wrote:

>
> Actually that company Sun Remarketing was in Utah about an hour away
> from me:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Remarketing
>
> On May 19, 9:00 pm, Christian Wacker <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I thought that they buried all the unsold Lisas and Apple IIIs in a
>> Californian desert...
>>
>> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:02 PM, James Fraser
>>
>>
>>
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>
>>> --- On Tue, 5/19/09, glen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>> Fast forward about 15 years and I bought my first personal
>>>> computer, an Apple III in the early 80's. Kind of a dog
>>>> but I ended up with three of them for my business before
>>>> buying my first Mac's in 1989.
>>
>>> When you say the Apple III was "kind of a dog," is this based on  
>>> your own experience with them?  Or is this based on their infamous  
>>> reputation (i.e. your own experience with them was a fairly  
>>> positive one)?
>>
>>> Did you employ the Apple III's all the way up until 1989?  If so,  
>>> that's a pretty impressive amount of life you wrung out of those  
>>> machines.  Of course, with their rather hefty price tag, it's only  
>>> fair to admit that the incentive for a buyer to wring all they  
>>> could out of them was a pretty strong one. :)
>>
>>> If the numbers I read are correct, Apple sold even fewer Apple  
>>> IIIs than they did Lisas (65,000 vs. 80,000) if such a thing can  
>>> be believed.  I find myself wondering if there's a landfill  
>>> somewhere with a metric diaperload of Apple IIIs in it à la the  
>>> Lisa as the number of Apple IIIs produced was allegedly ~120,000.
>>
>>> Best,
>>
>>> James Fraser- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
> >


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