STEIN@UCONNVM.BITNET (10/19/87)
>Jack Cooper asked whether the backplane on the IIGS upgrade should be included
in the price of the upgrade or as an extra charge. My understanding is that it
was part of the price of the upgrade.SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) (04/21/88)
>I own an enhanced //e and would like a GS. I know that a //e upgrade to a GS >is cheaper than buying a new GS, what do you do with the //e case. Since the >GS uses a detachable keyboard, you don't need the one in the case. I was also >considering selling my //e. I would like to know if anyone can also tell >me about how much I could possibly get for it if I sold it with a Video-7 >RGB extended 80 column card, system saver fan, Grappler+ serial printer >interface card, mouse and mouse card. Since all of my disks are 5 1/4" >I want to keep my Duodisk but I don't know if it will work with a GS. If not >I would sell it with controller card with the //e. Considering that a brand new Laser 128 can be purchased for $400 and a second disk drive costs less than $100 (with cable), I'd guess the //e system WITH the Duo Disk drive (it'll be MUCH harder to sell without it) AND mouse is worth, at most $550 (sorry). Someone recently sold a //c with an ImageWriter I in our local "shoppers' guide" for $600 (the pair). Used computers just aren't worth a whole lot (sorta like cars, they lose about 1/3 of their purchase price the day you take them home). If you upgrade a //e, as I understand it, you DON'T get the detachable keyboard (you do get the new //e type attached keyboard with the numeric pad). If you compare the cost of an IIgs + the $500 or so for your present system with the cost of an upgrade, I think you'll find it worthwhile to sell the //e and buy a new IIgs (or maybe wait until January and get a IIgs+ :-). --------------------- Disclaimer: The "look and feel" of this message is exclusively MINE! (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited) ARPA: sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu Murphy A. Sewall BITNET: SEWALL@UCONNVM School of Business Admin. UUCP: ...ihnp4!psuvax1!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL University of Connecticut