12 Nov
2010
12 Nov
'10
11:23 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 12 Nov 2010 at 11:40, Ethan Dicks wrote:
It depends whether you want one to do Real Work, or just to mess around with,
I think. On the messing around side of things, I don't really mind whether
it's old or new - but I do find an attraction to boards which have separate
visible components for different areas of functionality (ROM, RAM, CPU, I/O
etc.) just because they feel more like my idea of what a computer should look
like, somehow :-)
cheers
Jules
The last cheap SBC I got was a Micro Designs Z-80
Starter Kit (c.
1976) for $10 at a surplus place in Los Angeles about ten years ago.
It's gotta be worth $20 by now. ;-)
It's not as if no one is making SBCs anymore. The number of various
eval and development kits and learning kits is amazing.
So I fail to see the intrinsic value of an old one with limited
capabilities.
Or am I not thinking as a collector would?