Commodore 65 = $5,000

\begin{aol} Me too! \end{aol} I have never bought a classic computer (or anything else for that matter) with the idea that in <n> years time I'll sell it and get more money back. And although I have some machines that probably are quite valuable, I have no intention of selling them. I buy stuff because I want to tinker with it, restore it, learn how it works, and so on. Maybe even use it for the original purpose. That's the fun part of the hobby to me. A few montyhs back I bought a amchine on E-bay and it was damaged in transit (it must have had a real know, it was well-packed and was an HP...). The one thing I refused to do was return it for a refund. As I said 'you can't hack banknotes'. The machine, even in the condition it was in [1] was worth a lot to me. [1] The case looked a wreck, but the PCBs and CRT were fine. There's one small electrical fault in the PSU, nothing to do with the fall. And it has a HPL ROM board in it, which is probably worth as mcuh as I paid for the whole thing. -tony