17 Nov
2009
17 Nov
'09
10:03 p.m.
On Nov 17, 2009, at 1:35 PM, Jules Richardson wrote:
Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
Why is an ounce of gold worth $1000? Because that's what people will
pay for it. It has no inherent use; you can't eat it, you can't live
in it, you can't keep warm with it. But someone will give you $800 for
it and come away feeling like they've got a great bargain indeed.
They are expensive because they are very rare. They are expensive
because they are the "first" for a very well known company. Why is the
first issue of "Action Comics" worth so much more than the sixth issue
(by a factor of 24!), or worth so much more than the first issue of
"Wonder Comics"? Because it's a first, and because it's very rare, and
it's from a very well known name, and therefore people will pay money
for it. Same with the Apple I.
There's nothing to get, really, apart from human nature.
-Seth
There are only around 250 of them, they were hand
built in Woz's
garage, mostly by Steve Woz and Jobs and only a few have surfaced
over the years making them rare and they have continued to go up in
value over the years as more and more publicly known auctions and
sales have made headlines on major site and the SJ Mercury
Newspaper, so they fetch big bucks.
It's the insanely high price I can't work out, I suppose. History's
littered with early 'home' machines with low production runs, and
machines from that sort of era (give a couple of years!) and with
that sort of spec.