Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!] - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

7 Oct 2016

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From: Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> 
Date: 2016-10-07  8:46 PM  (GMT-08:00) 
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
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Subject: Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!] 

On 2016-Oct-07, at 5:17 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:

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   On 10/7/2016
5:21 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:  
  That simply defies logic. I *really* don't
get this collecting business.  
 It's Apple-related. Some Apple devotees seem to have an, ah, excessive
 attachment to things Apple. (Q.v. $1M Apple I's.) I'm suprised that some of
 them didn't commit suttee when Steve died. 
I agree this valuation is primarily "Apple"-driven rather than say
"vintage-computer" driven,
but here's an interesting non-Apple sale, just completed:
	http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cromemco-Dazzler-JP-1-Joysticks-D-7A-S-100-Card-Doc…

And yet the untouched original Mark-8 boards I bought only went for $1500. ?I don't
get it.