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Apple IIc goes for $2600
WEB developer Dan Budiac has just shelled out $2,600 for a 20 year old Apple IIc on eBay.
While many 'vintage' PCs change hands for a few dollars it seems this Apple did not lose its expensive price tag. This is partly because it was still in its box and never switched on.
However if it was difficult to find software for 20 years ago, it is next to near impossible to find it now, but like many fan boys Budiac does not seem to care much.
Apparently he had been mightily miffed when his father sold the family one in 1989.
Once the got the machine home he opened it and stayed up until 4 o'clock in the morning playing Oregon Trail.
He filmed the unboxing on Flickr and the showing has become an overnight sensation with 2.5 million visits from fanboys with nothing better to do with their lives.
The Apple IIc was released in 1984. While it lacked the imaginative design that would be associated with the fruit themed manufacturer, and was not as elegant as the powerbook it was pretty good.
It originally sold for $1,295, and included a 1.023-MHz processor, 128KB of RAM, a built-in keyboard, power supply and 9-in. monochrome monitor.
According to Computerworld that $1,295 is equivalent to $2,663 these days. µ
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Found this one on ebay for a lot less, if you are in to that Apple fan boy stuff. 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Apple-IIc-Computer_W0QQitemZ320223892900QQihZ011QQcategoryZ4193QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
It's in great shape, and I have a bunch of software for it. Last time I played with it, about a year ago, the software was still working fine. I even have an analog joystick for it. Hmmm... wondering if I should sell it or hold on to it.
You guyz are showing off too much

Having used a IIe 20 years ago, and knowing the iic, I can understand very easily why someone would want one and be willing to pay a price for one in prestige condition. 

These were part of the home pc explosion, together with the c64, microbee, spectrum, amstrad and all the other brands that appeared for a very short time.

yes, the iic was in a little world of its own, but thats what made in unique. This guy has done what no one else can do any more, and fixed that mistake the best way he could



I loved the Apple II series as well, but your "Grow the <f> up" comment + diatribe is in itself patently hypocritical.

Forget to take your meds today? I really don't see what you're complaining about -- all Inq articles have a bit of cheekiness; if it rubs you the wrong way, my guess is the problem is at your end (and you confirmed it beyond any reasonable doubt with your verbal aneurysm).


wow Peter you really takes iit personnally, i guess you are one of the 2.5 millions that shafted their wiener watching the guy unpack his old apple shit, i mean i use apple and pcs for my job, but hey a 20 years old computer IS CRAP!!!!,
People with no sense of humour should not read The Inq. And people who "love" their machines should contact their "brain care specialist" immediately. Granted, Apple changed the world in the late 70s and early 80s. In my country (Bulgaria) we built the whole IT industry around cloning the Apple II (and later the IBM PC XT). But these days are gone. Get over it! Loyalty is for dogs.
lmao another pissed off mac fan boy, job well done Nick!
By taking the thing out of its box and turning it on he's just sliced the value of it clean in half. I can't imagine most real collectors of such things would want to do that to such a rare find, and if he was so desperate to play a 20 year old game I'm sure there's emulators aplenty.
Nick Farrell, are you retarded out of your mind? Did your parents beat you as a child with a one-button Apple mouse? Look, asshole, I don't like Apple corporate and marketing philosophy of the last 9 years or so; but who didn't love their old Apple? I had a blast playing Hard Hat Mack on my old IIce. I had another blast playing Spectre Supreme and Glider 4.0 on my Quadra 610. It pained me when I really did have to dismantle my Performa with its 68030 and 5MB of RAM. 

We didn't use macs back then because of some pretentious self-image. We used them because they were cool machines; and with system 7.5 they were a step ahead of Windows 3.0 boxes of the time.

Grow the fuck up. None of your readers really likes you. We don't really think you're funny for slamming any and everything Apple that has ever existed throughout computer history.
Everyone knows the machine to have was the IIc _PLUS_ !! What a knob.