6 Mar
2013
6 Mar
'13
3:20 p.m.
> "The vintage computer collecting hobby has
been active in its current form
> since the 1990s. ... Also, I definitely would NEVER claim that a 1998 desktop PC has
or will
> ever have significant collectible value."
On Wed, 6 Mar 2013, William
Donzelli wrote:
Mark the date.
Those words will be eaten in as little as 10 or 15 years.
To be fair, a Packard-Bell, eMachine, Gateway, Yugo, etc. may
eventually command a high price, but that does not mean that it has VALUE.
Tony Cole's gold plated PC ("for shielding") may certainly become a
collector's item, particularly with the major media coverage that it had,
but his VIPC 5160s will never really be WORTH anything.
Eventually, artifact collectors (not actual users) WILL bid up 1990s crap.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com