Cashing In On Antique Computers

Posted by timothy on Saturday August 4, 2001 @06:16AM from the break-out-the-duster dept.

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.

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sorry, not collectible by jchristopher · 2001-08-04 06:39 · Score: 4, Redundant

The local thriftstore has a working Mac IIci for $1.98 -- maybe I should put it on eBay as a collectable.
Seeing as eBay already has a shitload of IIci's for $9.99 (with 0 bids!), I wouldn't exactly call a IIci 'collectible'. They made FAR too many of these for them to ever be of any value due to scarcity.