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# 251674 6-Jul-2019 10:11
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I have an Apple III - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_III

 

With Display, Additional floppy drive, disks, Manuals and 4 x Corvus 5mb hard disks - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvus_Systems

 

Its been sitting quite happly, boxed up (not original) for at least 15 years, but I am in the process of moving to a smaller house, and it takes up quite a bit of room.

 

My options seam to be:

 

1) Move it..

 

2) Sell it..

 

3) Dontate it to some sort of entity.. Museum etc. (Suggestions?)

 

4) Throw it out.

 

What does the Geekzone collective think I should do?

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  # 2270897 6-Jul-2019 10:36
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5. Set it on fire.




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  # 2270902 6-Jul-2019 10:52
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Try it on Trademe for a $1 reserve (pickup only) and see what happens.

 
 
 
 


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  # 2270918 6-Jul-2019 12:03
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Agree, Trade Me $1 reserve. Plus show a picture of the screen after boot up will convince people it still works.

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  # 2270964 6-Jul-2019 12:34
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Join the retro gaming nz facebook group and offer it there?




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  # 2270965 6-Jul-2019 12:34
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I'll take it. 😁

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  # 2271042 6-Jul-2019 13:34
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Id love to start collecting old hardware, but got nowhere to store it.....  someone out there will take it as a collection piece.

 

 




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  # 2271086 6-Jul-2019 15:46
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I have decided to put it on TradeMe.

 

I powered it on earlier today and it booted from a floppy.

 

$1 Reserve.. It will be interesting to see what it goes for.

 

https://www.trademe.co.nz/computers/vintage/listing-2219991745.htm

 
 
 
 


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  # 2271088 6-Jul-2019 15:48
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Take a look at some of the eBay prices to get an idea of what it might be worth. It should certainly sell on a $1 auction on Trade Me.




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  # 2271090 6-Jul-2019 15:58
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Trademe looks good, pretty good what they did with 256K back then !

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  # 2271121 6-Jul-2019 18:24
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You might make a few bucks with it, pretty cool tech those old apples. I especially liked the Apple IIGS.

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  # 2271122 6-Jul-2019 18:38
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Keep it until its worth 10k as a collectable. Sell it. Profit??

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  # 2271142 6-Jul-2019 19:11
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sqishy:

Trademe looks good, pretty good what they did with 256K back then !


But you really need 640k :)




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  # 2271181 6-Jul-2019 20:45
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Dairyxox:

 

Keep it until its worth 10k as a collectable. Sell it. Profit??

 

 

 

 

I did sell my Apple Lisa 1 for about that.. (about 10 years ago on Ebay.. went to a collecter in Japan). I should have kept it.

 

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  # 2271243 7-Jul-2019 08:39
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Seems to be doing pretty well with quite a few bids already!

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  # 2272104 8-Jul-2019 22:56
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Placed my bids.

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