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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: Tomask on July 20, 2013, 02:12:19 PM

Title: Swap: Apple III for an Amiga 3000 / 4000
Post by: Tomask on July 20, 2013, 02:12:19 PM

Hi!

I have a fully working Apple III With Monitor III and a ProFile 5mb external harddrive I would like to swap for a Nice Amiga 4000 or pimped out 3000. Haven't tried the ProFile since I don't have a 25 pin scsi cable. Some original programs is also included.
 
I live in Norway btw..
 
(http://www.cragar.no/div/appleiii.jpg)

(http://www.cragar.no/div/programmer.jpg)

Title: Re: Swap: Apple III for an Amiga 3000 / 4000
Post by: Iggy on July 20, 2013, 03:15:55 PM

Good luck with that.
I used to work with those and threw away three of them.
Thanks to that aluminum case, they have the annoying habit of slowly unseating the socketed ICs.
And they are only marginally compatible with the Apple II.

Title: Re: Swap: Apple III for an Amiga 3000 / 4000
Post by: desiv on July 20, 2013, 05:59:21 PM

Quote from: Iggy;741405

I used to work with those and threw away three of them.

Ouch..

Quote from: Iggy;741405

And they are only marginally compatible with the Apple II.

Of course, most of their value is because they are not Apple IIs... :)
Some things have value because of how good they were.
Other things have value because of how much they didn't hit the mark.. ;-)

desiv

Title: Re: Swap: Apple III for an Amiga 3000 / 4000
Post by: Tomask on July 20, 2013, 06:55:04 PM

Could be someone out there collect vintage Apple / Macs and these are pretty hard to come by. They typically hit 350-600$ on Ebay depending if it's just the computer or with accessories like original software, ProFile and so on.

Title: Re: Swap: Apple III for an Amiga 3000 / 4000
Post by: Duce on July 20, 2013, 08:07:51 PM

Apple III's are quite collectible up here, and yours looks nice and clean.  Good luck on the sale/trade!

Title: Re: Swap: Apple III for an Amiga 3000 / 4000
Post by: haywirepc on July 20, 2013, 11:58:09 PM

WOW a 5 meg hard drive! Thats power! :)

Title: Re: Swap: Apple III for an Amiga 3000 / 4000
Post by: Beast96GT on July 22, 2013, 12:52:09 AM

I'm sure the Apple is valuable as a collector's item, I'm just not sure if anyone on Amiga.org is an ideal target.  

I would think you'd have better luck selling it on ebay and then using the money to turn around and buy the Amiga you want.  

Just my opinion.  Good luck either way.

Title: Re: Swap: Apple III for an Amiga 3000 / 4000
Post by: XDelusion on July 22, 2013, 02:59:56 AM

I second that, I doubt you'll find an Amiga owner willing to trade in for an Apple, but ya never know, stranger things have happened.
 Looks very well preserved though!

Atariage.org might be another place to check into for a possible trade. There are Amiga people roaming around there too as well as an Amiga specific thread.

Title: Re: Swap: Apple III for an Amiga 3000 / 4000
Post by: Lurch on July 22, 2013, 06:31:39 AM

I would use amibay there's an apple section there. Plenty of trading happening.

But I'll be keeping my Amiga at this stage :-)