17 Nov
2009
17 Nov
'09
9:35 p.m.
Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
There are only around 250 of them, they were hand
built in Woz's garage,
mostly by Steve Woz and Jobs and only a few have surfaced over the years
making them rare and they have continued to go up in value over the
years as more and more publicly known auctions and sales have made
headlines on major site and the SJ Mercury Newspaper, so they fetch big
bucks.
It's the insanely high price I can't work out, I suppose. History's littered
with early 'home' machines with low production runs, and machines from that
sort of era (give a couple of years!) and with that sort of spec.
In terms of experience, yes it's special - but the same sort of special can be
had for a fraction of the price, which means I'm struggling to get past
thinking that it's maybe $2k for the physical item + ephemera, and $48k for
the name of a certain piece of fruit :-)
Maybe it simply comes down to the age-old "Apple people" vs. "non Apple
people" thing and it just won't make sense no matter how hard I try...
Or maybe, like you say, it's all just fueled by the media - one sells, media
report it, generates more interest when the next one sells, media report it
etc. etc. (and I do believe ebay tends to make prices go up way over and above
what they'd be like if ebay didn't exist, so it can't help either)
cheers
Jules