5 Aug
2023
5 Aug
'23
10:16 a.m.
On 8/3/23 00:45, Joshua Rice via cctalk wrote:
Value is a very much reliant on both desirability and
historical significance. I guarantee most people who own an Apple 1 never use it, and it
sits in a cabinet/shelf somewhere. Transversely, I’m sure there’s very few Amiga 1200’s
purely on display, with the vast majority in collectors hands either tucked in a cupboard
or actively used.
The Apple 1 is collectible purely because it was the first product Apple made. There’s
dozens of similar machines from the same time period, vcreated by startups looking to be
the next big thing, that just didn’t make it. Look at SWTPC, look at IMSAI, the COSMAC
ELF. Apple made it to the big time, and they didn’t, so many more people with too much
money would consider the Apple 1 to be a wise investment.
I’d still prefer the IMSAI 8080 or SWTPC 6800 though.
Collection values are so subjective that to me, that they make little
sense. For example, is a Mac that belonged to Steve Jobs more valuable
than the same model Mac that belonged to Harvey Schmidlap? Same
machine--I doubt that any scientific test could affirm that Jobs was
still alive in the former. But the difference to collectors may be a
couple orders of magnitude.
But then, I see little difference in value between an original painting
and an expert copy.
Yes, I know, I have no soul!
--Chuck