rover.ebay.com — Pictures need to be seen to be believed; the original box and all manuals were included in this auction. This early 1980s 1mhz Apple II+ originally sold for $1,200. Adjusted for inflation that would be $3,000 today meaning that over the last 25 years despite being outpaced several thousand times in mhz you'd have only lost 50% of your investment.
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lolwtfhahaDec 25, 2006
Imagine how much this will sell for in another 20 years! Oh wait, non-drm devices will all be rounded up and destroyed in 2012 :-/
third_eyeDec 25, 2006
Very cool to see. Brings back memories.
ggkoDec 25, 2006
The original 128k? I really don't know for sure, but If it's all in working order and in good shape, it could get more than you'd think. But it's the stuff that came with it that's probably worth more; the more of it you have, the better. Just the box alone for it sold for around $500 a few years back.<a class="user" href="http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,51208,00.html">http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,51208,00.html</a>For a personal experience, at a thrift store I once stumbled upon a Mac plus in it's original box, with all the parts and accessories. This was shortly after the news of the $500 box. But I didn't have the space to store it so I passed it over. Over the next week, the knuckle-draggers that also shop Goodwill proceeded to tear the contents apart, so I grabbed the one intact item, a guided tour cassette tape still in the shrink wrap. I put it on eBay and sold it for about $20.
brundlefly76Dec 26, 2006
If you had put that $1200 in a simple savings account at a lousy 3% you would have $2,500 and not have to have a box sitting in your attic for a quarter-century.
graemeeDec 26, 2006
I got a working Mac in a yard sale for $10.00 No keyboard No mouse, but it's an original 1984 Model. Cost me more to get the mouse & keyboard, but it still works. I'm surprised that Apple II+ are considered valuable, to me they are like C64's, old, fun but not worth much. I have two, mind you one is a knockoff from Hong Kong. But didn't they make millions of these?
macparrotDec 26, 2006
dugg for the "Christmas Story" reference
peterw99Dec 26, 2006
should have sold it for more $. fool.
oobitsaDec 26, 2006
I had the same machine. Same manuals, same box.. It, too, was made in Ireland. Just like a DeLorean!While the power button, wasn't really a button, the reset key was right on the keyboard just waiting for you to hit it and accidentally reboot. I once lost quite a few lines of Pascal code doing this!My first mods were an 80 column card, the lower case letters hack, and another 12k to bring it up to 64k!