16 Nov
2006
16 Nov
'06
1:52 p.m.
On Nov 16, 2006, at 6:14 AM, Jules Richardson wrote:
*My* interest? Only the fact that it's a machine that I've not
yet explored...nothing more. Other folks? No clue.
On Nov 15,
2006, at 11:08 AM, Jules Richardson wrote:
Your Apple ///...I've never played with one, and I'd like to.
I've never been a pre-PowerPC-Mac Apple person. I'd pay maybe
twenty bucks for a ///, just to learn more about it. A person who
lusted after a /// when they were new, though...like I did for the
TRS-80 Model I...That person, and that person alone, decides what
that machine is worth TO THEM, and the reason why is something
that that person decides the merits of.
True - but then why the interest in the ///? I doubt that many people used one (relatively) or
lusted after one
when they were new.
I'm just guessing here, but I'm assuming that Apple ][ and //e
people (and there sure were a lot of 'em) just assumed the /// was
"more of the same, but better" because it was a follow-on product.
Other than the Apple name there doesn't seem to be
that much to
attract people to them (mine's kind of interesting because of the
clunky, low-capacity hard drives - but that's probably not typical
of most ///'s that change hands)
Like you, I kind of put it in the '20 buck' category. Which means I
could see someone who *really* wanted one maybe handing over a bit
more - like 40 or so. Then it's got a couple of Profiles and a bit
of boxed software, so maybe add 20 on top of that. Still a far cry
from the prices that they do seem to fetch, though.
Well maybe, but that's a matter of opinion. I understand yours in
this case, because I share it. Again, we're not qualified to judge
the sensibility of other folks' actions in this matter because they
may involve the weirdest of all the human firmware features...emotion.
Perhaps I'm just underestimating the 'I simply
have to have that!'
factor which seems to play a part in a lot of transactions, though :-)
Quite possibly. That happened to me when I bought my H-8. Boy
was I eating ramens for a while after that. I'm willing to bet,
though, there's a bona-fide personal affinity at work in a lot of
those situations...not just "auction fever".
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL