21 Apr
1997
21 Apr
'97
4:48 a.m.
| Aha! You have a point! Anyone remember the time when
Osborne-1s were
| supposedly rare and were priced at around $1,000-$10,000? Ha
ha. Nice joke.
This stems from a California reporter who got confused when talking to
collectors and printed in the newspaper that an Osborne 1 sold for over
$10,000. The collectors were actually talking about an Apple I, not an
Osborne 1 (an easy confusion for a layman to make). An Apple I sold at
the Computer Bowl charity auction (filled with billionaires) for that
price, but even that doesn't mean that an Apple I is _worth_ $10K, just
that someone made a nice charity donation in connection with one.
Kai