What's a /// and ///+ worth in trade?

[Keatah]

What's an Apple ///, ///+, parallel card, serial card, profile card, and 2 external drives worth in trade. Not necessarily looking for a $ amount. But perhaps other hardware items that would be II series related.

[Tempest]

Well I know that I was looking at buying Curt's Apple ///+ setup several years back but he ended up selling it on ebay and I think it went for $750-$800 then.  I can only imagine they've gone up since that time.

[bluejay]

Worth absolutely nothing! Who wants these awful, unreliable, useless machines anyways? I’ll trade ya my IIe for it ?

[doctor_x]

Pretty machines. I would even enjoy having the case to admire. Even cooler, a 2gs in a /// case (yes, I know - the GS case is drool worthy - but the /// is too!) 

[Keatah]

I've always admired the /// until I learned enough about computers and learned how the market worked. Then it suddenly became so-so. And the II kept coming out with more and more peripherals, like a 10MB HDD, and Pro-DOS, and interesting internal modems like the Apple-Cat II. Mockingboards and clock cards. Memory cards and DHGR on the //e and MouseText. So many add-ons and enhancements that were actually used too.

 

I wanted one as a kid, of course. And all my memories of it were generated vicariously through Apple literature like the Apple-In-Depth catalogs. But as time moved into the mid-80's I lost interest in it. I figured it was a machine that passed me by, or I passed by it. I wouldn't get one till the early ebay days when they moved for like $50.

 

Today I wonder about gutting one or two (as the platform is useless) to build a 3-point emulation rig. SFFPC i9, MiSTer DE10 nano, and R-Pi. The case is big. I can replace the keyboard with modern a modern PC part. And the slanted faceplate would make for custom control panel with knobs and buttons and blinken lites.

 

I thought of doing the same thing with an IMSAI or Altair too. Even those bulky-ass, otherwise useless, TRS-80 Model IIIs. All for the same reasons. Spaciousness, vintage appeal. Something different because I can.

 

So far all have remained thought exercises when it comes to a 3-in-1. And that's just fine by me. One day one certain look and configuration will inspire me to pluck down $2000 and do it.

[Iamgroot]

I think the biggest appeal to them yet is that not enough is known about them than no-one has written an emulator for them yet.  To have a big and bulky machine to move around when one moves is kind of a hindrance to owning one.  But would at least be nice to be able to program on an emulator of one.

[The Usotsuki]

There was one for Mac called Sara and MAME emulates it.