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Grex Hardware Item 102: Price for used Gateway 2000?
Entered by mcpoz on Sat Jan 20 13:48:53 UTC 1996:

I have a chance to buy a used Gateway 486 with a 17" flat screen monitor, a
video card, 24 meg ram (yes 24), and a 540K hard drive.  It has tons of legal
software, including Office, fax & ocr, PCtools, and some others. all orginal
disks and manuals included.  (oh, yes, it is a 66 mhz model).   

My question, what would be a fair price for this unit?  If you had it, what
would you ask and what would be your bottom line?
Thanks.
(that should be a 540Meg Hard Drive)

2 responses total.

#1 of 2 by ajax on Fri Feb 2 08:51:33 1996:

The RAM would probably sell for around $25 a meg, so that's $600.  A good
17" monitor new is around $700-$1000, but quality varies a lot; if it's
an NEC or Sony, I'd think it would still be worth $500-600 used.  Software's
hard to price...if you don't want it, it's worthless.  If you do, then if
it's the current version, I'd figure it's worth near retail price to you,
if it's not, then calc the difference between an upgrade to the current
version and the full current version.  The 486, case, hard drive, etc.,
are probably worth around $200.  At a really rough guess, I'd probably
ask for $1500, expect $1300, and go lower until it sold.

#2 of 2 by mcpoz on Sat Feb 3 03:07:37 1996:

Thanks, I bought it and it is a good deal.  The software included Excel 5.0,
Word 6.0, and lots of others.  The monitor is an Ideki:yama which reportedly
was a "recommended best buy" in the computer mags, .28 mm dot pitch, 1024x768,
multiflat, antistat.  The Windows 3.1.1 for workgroups is fast.

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