Collecting, was: ZX80

On 11/10/2005 at 8:49 PM Jules Richardson wrote: I don't know--if I were a collector (and I'm not--the junk just accumulates here without me trying), I'd be looking for not-very common items. Like a National Semi Starplex, or one of the AMC amZ8000 development systems. Or that Durango F-85 that I can't seem to give away. Nice expensive boxes that didn't see a lot of production. How about a People's Computer right out of Berkeley? Wood case with a brass nameplate. I passed one of those up some years back--but they were real. Why fool with the ones that enjoyed 5- and 6-digit production numbers? Reminds me of a co-worker a long time ago when the US Treasury decided to change the penny to its current design. He spent years collecting Indian-head pennies by going to the bank and filtering change (then re-rolling it and exchanging it). He proudly told me one day that he had over 100,000 of the things and was going to clean up in the coins market. He never did--100,000 of anything isn't particularly rare--and I suspect there were still millions of the things still in circulation or sitting in jars in cupboards... Cheers, Chuck