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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: gs upgrade
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Date: 21 Apr 88 01:06:26 GMT
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>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+ :-).

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