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Price Advice Sealed unopened Macintosh Plus plus printer plus 20MB hard drive. What's it worth?
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Are you sure? I mean, today we know how things are but do you really know how it was back then? I'd be more inclined to say no, but I don't know your age or your tenure with Apple products.
I know what it was like back then ...
Because I started hanging around an Apple dealer in my Jr. High days.. that would be 1981-82 .. and was there so much that I got to do odd jobs for them, setting up school/office networks that consisted of Apple II's, an occasional ///, and Macintosh/Lisa with OmniNet, before Apple introduced the whole LocalTalk thing. Worked there into 1986, before moving on in the blooming desktop publishing scene and setting up school/office networks that consisted of Apple II's, with Mac's, using LocalTalk, EtherTalk, et al.
Throughout it all, I've opened in store, and on site for setup, Lisa's, Mac's, from the original into the PPC era. After moving on in the early 1990's, I once bought four semi loads of IIgs's, and a bit of Mac's. In addition, dealt with many loads from Apple directly via their surplus and closeout fax bid lists that they used to do in the era before the return of Jobs.
Even looking into my current stash of "boxed" items. Apple -never- used anything other than custom moisture activated tape with the Motter Tektura Apple era typeface, the words Lisa, Apple /// or for a short stint, generic gray tape, before switching to clear tape.
Nothing ever came from Apple that was re-sealed. There was one strip on everything. Resealing meant re-boxing. A re-sealed box is like baby food that the "button" has been popped up on. Even officially refurbished stuff.
Because I started hanging around an Apple dealer in my Jr. High days.. that would be 1981-82 .. and was there so much that I got to do odd jobs for them, setting up school/office networks that consisted of Apple II's, an occasional ///, and Macintosh/Lisa with OmniNet, before Apple introduced the whole LocalTalk thing. Worked there into 1986, before moving on in the blooming desktop publishing scene and setting up school/office networks that consisted of Apple II's, with Mac's, using LocalTalk, EtherTalk, et al.
Throughout it all, I've opened in store, and on site for setup, Lisa's, Mac's, from the original into the PPC era. After moving on in the early 1990's, I once bought four semi loads of IIgs's, and a bit of Mac's. In addition, dealt with many loads from Apple directly via their surplus and closeout fax bid lists that they used to do in the era before the return of Jobs.
Even looking into my current stash of "boxed" items. Apple -never- used anything other than custom moisture activated tape with the Motter Tektura Apple era typeface, the words Lisa, Apple /// or for a short stint, generic gray tape, before switching to clear tape.
Nothing ever came from Apple that was re-sealed. There was one strip on everything. Resealing meant re-boxing. A re-sealed box is like baby food that the "button" has been popped up on. Even officially refurbished stuff.