Rev. A Apple IIe Value

No. No one does until you sell it. Prices of systems sold on the likes of ebay rise and fall for no particular reason.

Some random notes:

• Serial number lowness means more on the II/II+ machines than they do on IIe - there was a limited run of rev A boards, so there aren't a ton to begin with.
• Original boxes, especially ones that had matching serial numbers on them, are especially valuable to accumulation-oriented collectors vs. usage-oriented collectors; and accumulators tend to be willing to pay more than users.
• The early 80-col card will be important because rev A boards can't use the later ones, and rev As don't have DHGR modes.

Thanks for the notes. Is $75 a decent price?

Prices of systems sold on the likes of ebay rise and fall for reasons of demand and scarcity.

You could expect more if you had matching boxes. Less if not.

Except that demand is erratic and scarcity is similarly erratic. At any given moment it can be based on as little as a single perhaps irrationally exuberant buyer or seller. There is no steady (or even trending) supply or demand.

Well I'm glad that we agree that it's not "for no particular reason."

I figured I weigh in on this one.

I've seen IIe's (not Platinum)(Unenhanced)listed for anywhere between $20.00 and $100.00 and more, depending on the following:
1. Condition: You cannot expect to get a lot for a IIe that is missing half the keys from
the keyboard, is damaged beyond recognition, is so filthy that you have to be an
archiologist to excavate the computer out of years of dirt and dust, or is not working.
2. Is it in the original box (with original packing material)? If yes, then it may be
worth a little more. If not, a little less.
3. Is it an Apple IIe in the original box, with all the paperwork, still wrapped in
it's original plastic wrap, with all cords, books, etc. and looks like it may have
come off the show room floor? Does it have an 80 Column Card? Does it have a working
Disk Drive or two? Did it come with a Sales Slip with the original Buy Date? Now you
are beginning to talk some serious cash consideration.
4. Is it a IIe that has NEVER BEEN OPENED? You are now talking somewhere between ZING!
and WOW! (There are several more levels beyond WOW!)

LOL What I'm trying to say is that IIe's come in all price ranges. BEWARE! You may see something on ebay that says one thing, but is acually something else. I have been stung more than once in the past 18 years. So you have to learn to read between the lines.

Steven

Hi guys,

The Apple IIe was my family's first computer circa 1985, not counting a short and ill-fated stint with a Coleco ADAM that lasted a few weeks before my parents decided to return it to the toy store and get a REAL computer . We got it from our town's one and only computer store, the New England Computer Co. I think my folks paid the equivalent of $4000 in today's dollars for an Enhanced IIe, Disk II drive, green phosphor Apple monitor, and printer. I loved that machine; being a young teenager at the time, our IIe gave me countless hours of BASIC programming fun, gaming, and writing school projects. Not to mention the excitement of trading "cracked" games on floppies with friends in the school yard, ha ha!

I'd really like to get an early example of a 1982 rev.A IIe to play around with now. Anyone have a low serial number unit, say under 10,000 that they'd consider selling?

I contacted Will (the original thread poster) about buying his back in April, but strangely after a couple of nice back and forth messages with him, he's no longer responding to my follow ups.
Will, what happened? Why the shyness?

Anyhow, if anyone has a low serial no. system please message me; I'm willing to pay nice money for a nice early machine.

Thanks!
Howie

Howie,

Just keep checking for early IIe units up on eBay.
Any more no one is showing the Serial Numbers or Board Numbers for these.
I guess the sellers think that there's no differences, except for the "Enhanced" or "Platinum" versions.
There have been several listed lately that may be earlier versions.

Steven

IIRC, the Apple ][e was released JAN-1983, and the Rev A Motherboards were only out for a few months before being updated to the Rev-B Boards.. Like the Rev-0 Apple ]['s, the Rev A Boards would be upgraded to the Rev B Boards, just by the customer asking for them... Finding a Rev A will be more difficult because the numbers of people who took the upgrade, because Rev A Boards won't do Double High Res, which is a nice benefit if you have more than 64K of RAM...

The first Two years of Apple ][e's have the Lighter colored Key-caps, with the White lettering, verses the Darker colored Key-Caps with the Black lettering. Also these keyboards seem to be attached to the Bottom Pan, verses the Top Case in the later ][e's.

Chances are if the Apple ][e was not updated to a Rev B board, the Key Caps should be original too, so focus on the Auctions with the Lighter Colored Keys.. Unless they state that it is an Original Rev A board..

( Picture of the Darker Key-Caps )

IIe from first few years had painted case with white text key caps. Later Apple switched to coloured plastic and black text key caps to cut cost. The white text key caps were double injection molded, and the later black text key caps were dye sub printed.

Someone that used to work for the Keyboard Company (that was acquired by Apple early on) posted a blog (somewhere, google is your friend) describing varies phases Apple II (and Mac) keyboards went through in the duration of his employment there.