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In article <Bx9D38.2Lt@unx.sas.com> sasjcs@canoe.unx.sas.com (Joan Stout) writes:
>settlement. I bought a computer during our marriage, so he's legally
>entitled to half its value. I have no problem with that, but I want
>to know what a fair price is for this computer. The store where I
>bought it is no longer in business. Two places told me that the marker
>value is "$400-500," but I think it's worth less, based on similar 
>This is what I have:
>IBM-compatible XT (8088)
>20mg hard drive, 5.25 floppy drive
>640K RAM
>Samsung monochrome monitor
>Enhanced keyboard
>NEC Pinwriter 2200 printer

The prices you have quoted would be what the stores
would probably try to sell the system for.  You are 
quite correct in stating that you think it is
worth less.  With a measly 20mg hard drive, and it is
a used computer, if someone offers you $250-$300
for it, take it!  You know how it is, with computers,
would YOU buy a used computer?  They depreciate 
at a rate far greater than those used by most
accounting professionals.  In fact, the standard procedure 
nowadays is to write off the computer system in the first
year or two because of the volatility of the
market.  Remember when a 386 machine was considered
to be remarkable?  Now there are the 486's, and one
can pick up good 386 machines for almost nothing now.
They are about to release the next version to supercede
the 486, called the P-5 next year.  That is going to
make the price of 486's drop like it did for 386's 
when the 486 was introduced.  
--Keith