12 Apr
2005
12 Apr
'05
6:56 p.m.
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 20:17:19 -0700 (PDT)
Scott Austin <us21090 at yahoo.com> wrote:
/* coming out of the shadows.... */
I'm planning on exhibiting my MOS Kim-1 at the Trenton Computer
Festival (http://www.tcf-nj.org) and it occurred to me that I don't
know what this computer is worth (whatever "worth" means).
**** I'm not interested in selling it ****
My Kim-1 works and is a Rev B MOS unit, with original blue-cover
manuals (as well as home brew case and a home brew 2k memory
expansion).
The only data point I have is a recent ebay auction, where 2 working
Kim-1s, nice enclosures, Kim Extender Interface, 4 memory cards, S100
breadboarding card, issues of "Micro", etc went for $642. The item
description doesn't mention Rev #, or even whether its a MOS or
Commodore (though the photo shows *white* manuals).
So... roughly $300 for a Kim-1?
Thanks!
Scott
All the extra stuff you listed needs to be included in that $642, and is
worth more than the $42 you account to it.
More data points are needed. I sold my second SYM-1 (not the same
thing, but somewhat close) which was just the main board, and the main
manual, to someone in Japan for about $130 a few years back (the one I
kept is complete, serial-number-matches-that-on-box, etc. etc.)
-----topic drift below-----
Being the 'root for the underdog' sort of person, I'd say 'Synertec
rulez, MOS sux' (early version of the AMD vs. Intel fanboy scene??)
((even earlier, the Zilog versus Intel 8080 conflict?))
So where's the fight between the Intersil versus Harris 6100 processor
fanboys?? (My tubes of 6100s are all Harris)