15 Nov
2006
15 Nov
'06
10:28 a.m.
When one is dealing with 70's-era personal
computers, does rarity
play any part in the valuation?
Cheers,
Chuck
I haven't seen a lot of correlation between rarity and valuation. A quick
example is the Altair vs the Lobo Drives Max-80. The numbers I've heard for the
Altair are in the range of 25,000 produced while there were only about 5000
Max-80s produced.
There seems to be a lot more correlation between publicity and valuation.
Ebay gives a good idea of what the market is like *for those people who deal on
ebay*. Judging the value only by looking at the final price can be greatly
misleading ... there are a few people who bid the thing to death rather than
snipe or bid what they are willing to pay on the *FIRST* bid. When looking at
pricing, I almost always go to the bidders list to see what is actually going
on.