4 Aug
2023
4 Aug
'23
6:51 a.m.
That price is interesting. Does that imply the value has gone down after
some skyrocketed close to 1 million? One still has to make the decision of
a owning a house or an apple 1.
On Thu, Aug 3, 2023, 1:08 AM Christian Corti via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Wed, 2 Aug 2023, Murray McCullough wrote:
Classic computers have a value in our capitalist
society. Take the
Apple-1:
Not necessarily. Something only gets a value if there is a demand or
market. As I repeatedly see old classic systems scrapped because nobody
wants them/has space to store them, there can't be such a high value. For
example, how do you tax a Mincal 523? We have the only one that survived.
I'd say, it's "priceless", you can't attribute a value to it,
because
there's neither a market nor a reference to compare with.
The only reason why the Apple 1 has a monetary value is because it has
become a pure investment object. Everything else is just worthless, except
perhaps the video shift registers ;-)
Christian