I'm presuming that the theory here is that when an
"official" organization
erupts they start to create visibility for the activity they are promoting
(they almost have to to survive) and this gets more people interested and
then the demand goes up so prices rise.
That seems to be the wrong way round. The people are getting interested,
prices are rising, and a few people want to start an organization to
perhaps regulate it.
Such an organization could "preach" that many of these old computers are
far more common that people realize, and perhaps so many won't be fooled.
For example, page one of the official journal might have an article about
how ALL old Macs have signatures inside them. Or even section of
classified ads for FREE COMPUTERS.
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org