You can search the complete auctions on Ebay and it will show
you.
I think the software may be worth at least that much alone.
From:
lisalist@googlegroups.com [mailto:lisalist@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of sarahstryker@aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 12:06 PM
To: lisalist@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Lisa 1 on Ebay
Hi folks!
I know I haven't been much of a participant on this Lisa mailing list ... life
getting in the way, LOL. But I do have some questions. I have a Lisa/Macintosh
XL, and what is a near-mint, probably never used Lisa Office Suite in the
original box with the manuals which I won on eBay for $140, I think it was,
several years ago. What would that software suite, in its pristine condition,
be worth nowadays? Sally
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From: Ray Arachelian <ray@arachelian.com>
To: lisalist@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tue, Jan 19, 2010 11:22 am
Subject: Re: Lisa 1 on Ebay
John Musbach wrote:
> ROFL, plus $250 shipping. Amazing that someone purchased this item for
> that much money--especially in these hard economic times. What makes
> the lisa 1 so special? The SE/30 is one of the best compact macs, and
> even with things like a xceed grey scale card I have yet to see it
> sell anywhere near this price.
>
Hello HexStar,
Welcome back. :-)
So Lisa 1's are extremely rare because most of them were upgraded to
Lisa 2's - that's what makes them so valuable. At the time, most of
their owners were glad to be rid of the Twiggy drives which were very
unreliable. Of course, when you're a historian or a collector, in which
case the rarer the items, the more valuable. Historically, fully
working Lisa 1's go for $10K+, so $12K isn't out of the ordinary
considering inflation and the number of dollars Uncle Sam is printing
(well creating electronically, but that's another discussion for another
place.)
As for SE/30's, yes, they are very cool machines. I wish I had one. I
do have an SE, but it's not the same.
Of course a Lisa and an SE/30 are completely different beasts. The only
things they have in common are that Apple made them, and they're based
on Motorola CPU's. Remember that the Lisa is a workstation class
machine with multiple processors and has more in common with a mini than
a desktop such as the SE/30. They do run completely different operating
systems, though of course MacWorks allows MacOS to run on the Lisa, but
as it's got a completely different architecture, it's not quite the same
thing.
Certainly my MacBook Pro runs rings around both the Lisa and the SE/30,
and is one of the best notebooks ever built - but it doesn't mean I
wouldn't want to have all three said machines, or that I'd say that the
Lisa (or the SE/30) wasn't special.
btw, is your archive still online somewhere? it is/was a valuable
resource. Let me know and I'll add a link to it in the FAQ.
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