8 Oct
2016
8 Oct
'16
5:45 a.m.
From: Fred Cisin
> Did you tell the dumpsterers that they'd
thrown out stuff worth
> thousands of dollars? (I would have made to sure to let them know
> that, with great spite.)
"So? Boss said throw out everything in the
closets. ..."
Clearly, the Indians weren't to blame. But I sure hope someone told the
chief...
From: Corey Cohen
As for stuff in vintage computer that is going up,
it's not just Apple.
It has to do with how mainstream and how rare something is. ... I do
agree the rare Apple stuff is growing faster, but that's because it can
pull from the business community as buyers who love the comeback story
of Apple and what it represents.
Oh, I don't have any issue with Altairs going for $1-2K; I think one can make
a rational case for that; they were a key machine the growth of personal
computers, etc, etc. But I do think that when it comes to Apples, there is a
certain level of irrationality in some/many buyers. ($20K for a pair of
floppies?) There is definitely an Apple cult, which I think is a factor.
Let me make another analogy with cars (which I also used to collect). I think
early Ferraris are really, really cool - and the 330 P4 is, in my eyes, one
of the most beautiful race cars ever built (maybe _the_ most beautiful). But
if I had $10M, I sure as hell wouldn't spend the whole lot on an original P4;
I think better value would be to buy a down-to-the-last-bolt-exact replica,
for say $500K, and have $9.5M left over to buy other cool stuff with.
This goes quintuply for an original GTO, at $50M. One could do all sorts of
amazing things with that much money. Is having an original _really_ worth as
much (or more) than all those other things? Like I said, a certain level of
irrationality.
Noel