26 Jan
2001
26 Jan
'01
12:05 p.m.
I'll admit the original cost is one of the things that has always tickled
me about my machines. (insert dreams of inventing a time machine...)
It would be fun if there was a resource which showed the original list
price of some of the equipment.
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Chuck McManis wrote:
At 02:44 PM 1/26/2001 -0800, you wrote:
Several expressed that their interest in collecting
old computers
(especially mainframes) was motivated by the fact that they could "get them
for free but they cost over a MILLION bucks new!" The idea of owning a
million dollar computer was appealing to them. So now I've got three "why
do people collect" reasons:
3) Because they like knowing they own a computer that cost more
than their house.