19 Nov
2009
19 Nov
'09
11:29 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Back to the Apple I--is there inherently anything
unique to the Apple
I to prevent the market from being flooded with fakes?
Yes - the fact that it's so rare :-) I reckon someone could pull it off once
or twice, but soon it would become obvious that at least some of the systems
that were floating around were fakes, and buyers would start worrying about
independent testing before they put their cash down.
My point is that it's not irreplaceable, like,
say, a 1000 year old
sequoia or Abraham Lincoln's fingernail clippings... It would seem
to me that any intrinsic value would be hard to assess.
Well to my mind a reproduction would be just that, no matter how faithful it
was to the original. So does it have value because it's art? I don't really
think so. Does it have value because it it's historically significant? Sure -
but then shouldn't that value be in line with other things that have made
similar contributions to computing?
(I know I'm not getting any closer to understanding this, but the discussion's
interesting :-)
cheers
Jules