11 Nov
2003
11 Nov
'03
4:41 a.m.
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Hans Franke wrote:
Of course, but then that's the nature of valuation. You can speculate
that there are 50,000 Lisa 1's out there but then to factor "those" in to
any valuation would be misleading. You shouldn't base prices on the
possibility of more being out there just as you shouldn't go to war
against a country based on the possibility that it might have weapons of
mass destruction (har har).
No, he who had ***TWO*** Apple 1's could get an Apple ][. Let me repeat:
TWO Apple-1's. The Lisa upgrade was ***FREE***, as in ***NO CHARGE***, as
in ***FREE***. Apple even paid shipping both ways. Quite a bit of
difference.
Still at work.
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I would agree,
which is why I have been saying "known". But, until those
machines materialize, the fact is that there are less KNOWN Lisa 1's in
existence than Apple-1's. I would not doubt that there are more out
there (and would be willing to accept that there are many more), but until
they come forward, we can only go off of what is known.
Which is rather in favor for unnatural high prices. Sure, I can
agree with that in general. But where are they? And if you
just spent $10,000 on a computer that had crappy disk drives that failed
most of the time, and Apple was offering you a FREE upgrade (the Apple-1
deal was TWO Apple-1 boards for ONE Apple ][) then wouldn't human nature
dictate that such an offer would be taken by most people (where "most"
means ">98%")? So your number may well be inflated.
The same I'd say for Apple 1s.. he who got an Apple 1 and could get
an A2 with just a few bucks more would have done so. BTW: Good Morning
Go to sleep!