Trading a P4 PC for a boatload of old Apple equipment

[USSEnterprise]

Found someone local who has a bunch of Apple Equipment for sale. He told me he would be willing to trade for an old P4 Computer I have lying around. The equipment includes:
Two Apple III Computers
Two Profile Hard Drives
One Apple IIc System with Monitor, stand, and power brick
One Apple IIgs System with Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse, and Disk Drives
Hundreds of software disks

And somewhat newer:
Mac Performa 6500 Tower

Specs on my PC are:
3GHz P4
512MB RAM
30GB HDD
Sound and Video Cards (old)
DVD-ROM Drive

Sound good? I think so.

 

[NobodyIsHere]

Well, whether it is a good trade is purely a subjective decision best made by you. However, I certainly think you traded up for at least more interesting machines and got the better end of the deal. I know I'd rather play with those nifty Apple computers rather than another boring generic P4.

Certainly Apple isn't making any new A///'s again any time soon so those are becoming more valuable. P4's like you describe are a dime a dozen and very boring at that. Their best use is as a dedicated server for something mundane like MythTV or webserver.

Good luck with your new vintage computers!

Andrew Lynch

 

[mbbrutman]

I think this is a no-brainer. Have fun with the Apples ... the IIIs should be particularly interesting.


Mike

 

[NobodyIsHere]

Well said!