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Cashing In On Antique Computers
mwillems writes: "The Economist
posts this story this week about how old computer hardware can be worth money. At the Vintage Computer Festival East, a lot of old hardware was seen, swapped and admired. An industry is emerging, it seems: an Apple One apparently fetched $25,000 at auction. Time to dust off my Ohio Scientific OSI Challenger 4-p!" These festivals sounds like a lot of fun -- can anyone offer some first-hand reports from the Boston one? Hmm. The local thriftstore has a working Mac IIci for $1.98 -- maybe I should put it on eBay as a collectable.
But, there is something special about booting an Apple II+ when it was the one of few personal computers you could actually handle in 1980. I had an OSI C2-4P, and access to HP 67 and Apple II/II+. I'd love to reaquaint myself with these old slugs. It'd be fun to have a glass extension on my home where I keep them on display but away from my scrappy teenage son and his clever, trickster friend Ferris. I'd hate for anyone to actually turn them on and burn them out ...
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Hey,
The local thriftstore has a working Mac IIci for $1.98 -- maybe I should put it on eBay as a collectable.
Ebay has a Sinclair ZX Spectrum or two for £2.99... maybe I should buy one and put it on ebay as a collectable.
Hold on, there's something wrong with this plan...
Michael
"Goodness me, how unlike the FBI to abuse the trust of the American public." -- The Onion
It is hard to love something made of grey plastic.
Tell that to my girlfriend.
No, you sick son of a bitch, i'm talking about her credit card.
(I think i'll post this one anonymously)
A few months ago, one of the local Silly Valley school districts (Los Altos, iirc) Yahoo-auctioned off a working Apple I, signed by Steve Wozniak, complete with a picture of the Woz signing it.
It went for $350.
I didn't buy it.
--Blair
"D'oh!"
See, twenty million years after it's introduction and it's still OVERPRICED UNDERPOWERED JUNK.
AMD FOREVER!!
With the Slashdot Effect you've now brought upon the classic computer market, the market will soon be gone thanks to everyone selling and no one buying. Thank you Slashdot.
Washington, DC: It's like Hollywood for ugly people.
Finally, the expansion boards. There things sold for 5K and up initially, and will still go for that if you're paitent. Post a web page with all of the names and model numbers and a contact addy. Someone will search the net and hit your page and buy that board. I have sold video boards for 8K, comm and memory boards have gone for as high as 12K.
WHAT! HOLY SHIT! I've been breaking these things with baseball bats!!
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Sorry, but I was messing around and making robots with my KIM-1 way before Apples came around.
You were lucky to have a KIM-1! When I were a lad, if we wanted to 'compute' something we had to use a boonch of stones sorted into piles. Lose one and all your calculations go to hell! No manual! No interface! Oh sure, it weren't a hobby computer, but it were a hobby computer to us!
But you try telling the young people of today that, and they won't believe you.
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