16 Nov
2006
16 Nov
'06
3:35 p.m.
can anyone foresee old puters going on the block at
posh auction houses like Christie's or Southebie's? It
happened with comic books maybe 15 years ago. There
are a few dozen of those that are worth mega bucks
though. With puters, I'd have to say (at least at this
present time), it's merely a handful. I personally
don't think puters by themselves will ever gain that
sort of recognition, but perhaps a category, like old
elec- tronic gear, could one day possibly.
I beleive at least one of those auction houses has a category something
like 'Scientific and optical instruments'. Cameras most certainly come
under that (old camears are another interest of mine), and from what I've
read some of the cameras there are nothing particularly special (that
is,they're standard mdoels, no partcicuarly significant provenance), they
are the sort of thing I'd buy from a second-hand camera shop or on E-bay,
and attract the same sort of prices.
I can easily see old computers being sold by such aution houses in a few
(10's of?) years.
-tony