16 Nov
2006
16 Nov
'06
3:14 a.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
On Nov 15, 2006, at 11:08 AM, Jules Richardson wrote:
Your Apple ///...I've never played with one, and I'd like to. I've
never been a pre-PowerPC-Mac Apple person. I'd pay maybe twenty bucks
for a ///, just to learn more about it. A person who lusted after a ///
when they were new, though...like I did for the TRS-80 Model I...That
person, and that person alone, decides what that machine is worth TO
THEM, and the reason why is something that that person decides the
merits of.
True - but then why the interest in the ///? I doubt that many people used one
(relatively) or lusted after one when they were new. Other than the Apple name
there doesn't seem to be that much to attract people to them (mine's kind of
interesting because of the clunky, low-capacity hard drives - but that's
probably not typical of most ///'s that change hands)
Like you, I kind of put it in the '20 buck' category. Which means I could see
someone who *really* wanted one maybe handing over a bit more - like 40 or so.
Then it's got a couple of Profiles and a bit of boxed software, so maybe add
20 on top of that. Still a far cry from the prices that they do seem to fetch,
though.
Perhaps I'm just underestimating the 'I simply have to have that!' factor
which seems to play a part in a lot of transactions, though :-)
cheers
Jules