12 Nov
2010
12 Nov
'10
1:42 p.m.
Marvin Johnston wrote:
I am with you on this. As I mentioned a few weeks back, I see nothing
special in a stock <foo> just because it was used for some famous purpose
or by some famous person.
I find beauty in well-desinged and interesting hardware. There are many
machines I would find much more interesting than an Apple 1. In fact it's
hard to think of many machines I'd find less interesting...
I saw this article about a Christie's auction
and found it "funny" in a
way. It will be interesting to find out what it actually brings.
I might go as far as $20. :-) I like machines to be interesting, but don't
care so much about what they were used for or their place in history[1] - and
if I wanted to mess around with hardware of the A1's spec, there are surely
far cheaper ways of doing it. ($20's probably rather optimistic though - I'm
not sure what the chances are
of finding a 1970's single-board machine for that amount these days. Most of
the "barn finds" are likely long-gone)
Alas yes. Fortunately I've got enough machines to keep me occupied for a
goodfew years, beacuase at current prices there's no way I'll be adding
to the collection.
-tony