[Coco] Apple 2 Plus

[Mike Rowen]

I picked up a 48k Apple ][ e (1984) with an apple disk and apple monitor on eBay for ~$40.00 last fall. It came with several dozen disks. Yours being an earlier model might fetch a decent amount if it is working. My advice is price it to sell and see what happens. We routinely see mega bargains as well as crazy sales of things. Nostalgia can drive things way up, which is great for sellers! If you get it working, I would play up it's history in your eBay description. You can still get DOS for these systems. Let me know if you're interested in links. Good luck with restoring it!

Cheers,
-Mike

On Jun 22, 2011, at 2:48 PM, gene heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

> Greetings all;
> 
> I have an Apple ][ Plus, and a pair of matching Apple disk drives.
> 
> It has an Apple brand Super Serial card, a Microsoft brand card that looks 
> as if it is another bank or more of dram, and of course an Apple brand FDC 
> card.
> 
> I pulled this off the transmitter site after we turned off the analog 
> transmitter and pulled the door shut for the last time.  The owner, an 
> employee of mine at the time, was in very poor health and died of cancer 
> about a month after the shutdown.
> 
> His widow still lives, and having gotten a kidney transplant, may yet reach 
> SS collection age.
> 
> Anyway, I thought I would clean it up and see if it works, if, put it on 
> fleabay & give the widow the proceeds after ebay expenses.
> 
> But it has classic symptoms of bad ram and never completes the Apple 
> version of post, showing 2 byte wide patterns of black and white squares 
> with question marks in the white squares, and the digital racket of a 
> crashed system overlaid over that.  Many of the chips look as if they need 
> a half hour bath in fresh Tarnex to remove the black oxide of 32 years 
> growth on the legs since it was assembled in 1979.  That might fix it, 
> provided the chip sockets were also similarly de-oxidized, well rinsed and 
> dried.
> 
> Having fought that battle with the old JC Pennies NYC production house GVG 
> 300 3A/B switcher, and its accompanying NEC digital effects unit for 
> several years at the tv station, it doesn't seem to be worth the effort.  
> That thing was a MAJOR PIMA.
> 
> OTOH, what would it draw on fleabay if it was working?  Heck, I see non-
> working for $300+, and another barebones that works at 50 bucks.
> I was under the impression they were worth about 2x that.
> 
> 
> Cheers, gene
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