2 Aug
2004
2 Aug
'04
3:19 p.m.
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On Monday 02 August 2004 23:13, William Donzelli wrote:
Well I know my Apple IIe is RARE because it said so on E-Bay
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Collector of vintage computers http://www.ncf.ca/~ba600
Open Source Weekend http://www.osw.ca
That's not
so rare these days either ;)
I have been following this thread a bit, and have a few observations:
1) While "computer X" might be very rare, there are lots of "computer
Xs" out there, and lots of people with the. In other words, have you
noticed that almost every semi-serious collector has at least one rare
machine? The same phenomenon happens with other types of collections.
2) What is rare today may not be tomorrow...PDP-10s used to be
rare/you-will-never-find-one machines. How things have changed - there
are something like 40-odd PDP-10s in various flavors in collections now,
and KL-10s keep popping up like muchrooms.
3) How many people have *significant* machines? One that made a dent in
history, even if it was something as mundane as an Apple II or a
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