16 Nov
2006
16 Nov
'06
6:15 a.m.
On Nov 15, 2006, at 11:08 AM, Jules Richardson wrote:
Seriously? Or do you just mean relative higher price? I'd never
thought of my Apple /// as anything particularly interesting,
really. The Profile drives are nice, but I'd still not thought of
it as a system that would fetch anything other than beer money, ...
Well that's one thing that people here can never seem to wrap
their brains around. A particular piece of equipment (in your
possession, mine, or someone else's) may have a wildly different
value than either you or I think it does (or should), for reasons
which we may not understand. We must have faith that the person
spending (what we consider to be a) a huge amount of money on
something is doing it for a reason, and we're not qualified to judge
the merit of that reason.
It all boils down to respect for another person's judgment and
opinions, really.
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.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
I guess the highest price is demanded by "rare
products from a
well-known
brand". Say, maybe i432 computer from intel, Apple III from apple.
...and
there "rare" is a comparative thing. There were far more
more Apple III's produced than, say Jonos systems. Yet it seems
that the Apple will command a higher price.