10 Sep
2003
10 Sep
'03
9:38 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe" <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 9:02 AM
Subject: Re: Another Apple 1 for sale
At 05:30 AM 9/10/03 -0400, you wrote:
were
There are plenty of 1950's era computers which
are one-of-a-kind. Sadly,
many of them went to the scrapper.
The ironic thing is that the truely one of a kind (or very limited
production) computers aren't very collectable since few people know of
them. I'm sure the people on this list can name lots of computers that had less than 200 produced. And none of them would
command the kind of
price thaat the Apple I's do. I ran into the same thing when collecting
cars. I have a 1970 Dodge Challanger RT convertible. The Challangers were
only built for 3 years, convertibles only built for 2 years, only 269 RT
convertibles were ever built. It's a LOT rarer than the Mustangs but
everyone knows about the Mustangs and that's what everyone wants so the
Mustangs are worth more than the Challangers.
Joe
As far as the car goes write and article and try to get it published with
pictures of your vehicle (if its mint) and you will generate alot of
interest in that model which will drive the value up.
Cars are different from most collectibles because you can drive them around
where they can be seen and apreciated. Stamps, coins, baseball cards just
sit in vaults while computers are locked away in storage or somebodies
basement shrine. The older computers tended to intimidate most people while
the priceless deusenbergs were always works of art in sheetmetal.