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Re: **used POWERBOOK 520C how much is it worth?**

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From: Scott Hammerschmidt
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 00:00
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If I were in the market, I'd probably be willing to pay about $1000 if it
was in good shape.
Scott




In article <327BEBA5.51E3@dallas.net>, text@dallas.net wrote:

> > A friend of mine has a PowerBook 520C
> > that he wants to sell.  I'm not a Mac user
> > so I do not have any idea how much it
> > is worth.  It has 20megs ram, 250meg
> > hard drive, color display, Word,Excel,
> > Lotus Notes installed.  How much
> > should he ask for this system?
> 
> I've purchased 5 520's now, for myself and a small group of 520 buddies.
> If the box is not too used(door, front plate still attatched, screen
> twist not loose, serial port not burned out) a b&w 4mg machine can be
> had for about $500, add $ 2or300 for dual scan, about $125 for 16 mg
> chip, and word 6 isn't particularly well suited for the 520(unless you
> spend much $ to upgrade to the 167mhz cpu and even more ram.
> expect the value to drop after january when the world is once again
> awash in new powerbooks
> jm

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From: sdh5319@ksu.edu (Scott Hammerschmidt)
Subject: Re: **used POWERBOOK 520C how much is it worth?**
Date: 1996/11/04
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