On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Paul Passmore wrote:
It is a relative situation. Value is what is it worth
to you or the buyer=
=2E A
few points about the computer. There are not that many
floating around fo=
r
sale. It was a flop for IBM but it also was IBM's
entr=E9e into the "Home
I agree about worth being based on what the ultimate buyer puts it at.
But PCjrs are pretty common. Not as common as a Commodore 64, or VIC-20,
but I find almost as many PCjrs as I do PCs. They aren't that hard to
come across.
computer" market. This gives it some weight. The
PC and its siblings had
supplanted the PC jr and nailed the lid on the coffin, but I would hang =
on
to it, it will not become valuable for a while but it
is a "place marker"=
in
the history of computers. What did its introduction
mean to the industry=
?
That IBM could also produce a horrendous flop. I guess in that respect
its significant.
Altair- first viable personal computer, Apple I
computer, first of the
Oh no, here we go again. :)
longest lived manufacturer. (Yes IBM has been around
longer but not as a =
PC
maker) 1st Sony PC, the design and implementation of
the 3.5" diskette,
Tandy the first mass market machine not only sold in computer stores,
Commodore Pet, First computer to make the cover of a national general
circulation magazine (Popular Science) and from a calculator company no
Commodore was a business furniture company before they were a calculator
company.
less; using calculator keys for the keyboard. The
Commodore also set a
standard for selling computers to computer dealers in their original sell=
ing
agreements. Vector Graphics, first computer company
founded and run by a
woman. Osborne, the computer made by the guru of computer hobbyists and
Kaypro, first generally accepted computer for the average business person=
=2E
Want to know the value of a computer? Is it a piece of
hardware or a poin=
t
of computer history, did it change the way things were
done? Good luck.
A particular computer's significance does not necessarily reflect on what
someone will pay for it. Indeed, what people are paying seems totally
based on whim these days.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.=
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