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Title: 1988 Dolch Luggable - Complete
Post by: awriter on Mon, 16 May 2011, 13:01:12

I'm not sure if this is the correct  forum to post this, but if not perhaps the Mods can move it to one more appropriate.

I have a 1988 (or 89) Dolch Luggable with all the options including orange plasma screen and hard drive, in its original box. I even have my receipt -- it cost about $9800 at the time.

I don't have a clue what it's worth, if anything, and was hoping someone/s here could help me with this, or find a place to appraise it.

Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to give me...

Lisa

Title: 1988 Dolch Luggable - Complete
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Mon, 16 May 2011, 13:23:39

like a flexpac? what model number is it? pics?

Title: 1988 Dolch Luggable - Complete
Post by: REVENGE on Mon, 16 May 2011, 13:33:33

Hi, welcome. Being a plasma screened Dolch, I'm guessing the computer itself wouldn't be worth much to people here. Post a picture if you can.

Title: 1988 Dolch Luggable - Complete
Post by: ricercar on Mon, 16 May 2011, 16:31:11

You can probably get about $65 for the keyboard if you part it out. IIRC That's the amount for which I've sold Dolch with Cherry blues.

Title: 1988 Dolch Luggable - Complete
Post by: Findecanor on Tue, 17 May 2011, 17:30:15

Quote from: ricercar;347167

You can probably get about $65 for the keyboard if you part it out. IIRC That's the amount for which I've sold Dolch with Cherry blues.

Hah. That could be a gamble.
I think that the right thing is to put it for sale on eBay and post about it here so that the right people see it. :-)

I have seen just the keyboard (PAC-60 with PS/2 cable) go for around $100 on eBay. I got my Dolch keyboards (both of them) for much less than that, and the last one I saw on eBay had a starting bid at 1 Euro and did not get a single bid (because I was stupid and greedy and wanted not to bid until the last minute, but forgot about it when it was time, that's why ...)

Title: 1988 Dolch Luggable - Complete
Post by: RickyJ on Wed, 18 May 2011, 01:10:12

Wasn't it Kishy here who was looking for Dolch computer stuff a while ago?

Title: 1988 Dolch Luggable - Complete
Post by: False_Dmitry_II on Wed, 18 May 2011, 02:02:27

Yes it was. It sounded like he was looking for a specific part to fix his though, and not another whole thing.

Title: 1988 Dolch Luggable - Complete
Post by: 8_INCH_FLOPPY on Fri, 20 May 2011, 19:35:32

Orange plasma screen?

Title: 1988 Dolch Luggable - Complete
Post by: ricercar on Fri, 20 May 2011, 20:43:00

Quote from: kishy;348527

wasn't aware Dolch had made any 286 models (the off-the-shelf chassis they used for their systems was used for several 286 luggables, but none I know of were branded Dolch).

 
FWIW I played with a Dolch-branded 286 luggable this afternoon at http://www.halted.com. They keyboard was either Cherry ML or non-Cherry, had a RJ11 style cable, and it didn't seem to connect electrically to the CPU unit ("no keyboard attached" when it was), so I didn't even ask how much they wanted. Other than it didn't work, the machine was in pristine condition, including the carry bag.