On 06/08/09 5:36 PM, "Sterling Jacobson" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> Well, if he's willing to part it out then I'm sure some of us are ready
> to buy.
> 
> As for the $50 Lisa, yeah, I know they go for hundreds or even beyond
> $1k. Some dude in VA wants $2800 or something for his...
> 
> But that's what's cool about some of the people on THIS list, some of us
> are in it for sentimental value, not to make a dollar.
> 
> My wife would kill me if I bought a $1k computer like that since I don't
> intend on reselling it.
> I have a long history with my previous Mac XL computers, but didn't know
> back then that they would be so hard to come by or that I would even
> feel like I do now about having one again.
> 
> Maybe someday someone will get past the need to make huge bucks off
> their lisa and help me out (like in the low hundreds range) or maybe
> I'll become hugely rich and then I'll be able to buy one of a
> 'collector' looking to make a buck.
> 

I know what you mean.  I'm eyeing that IIc.  That was my first Apple...
EVER.  It was a complete system with the original monitor and a whopping
128KB of RAM.  I remember typing in code from some pre-Macworld pro-Apple
mag I think it was called "Byte" or "Bit"... not sure, but the programs were
cool and ranged from index cards to a very useful spreadsheet a la Visicalc.
Sold the whole system with an Apple Scribe for about $500 and used the money
towards my first Mac (a Plus).  I remember playing Conan on it with the old
single button Apple joystick and spending hours playing Bard's Tale.

Those old Apple computers did a lot for the technology back then.    



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