Osborne 1 prices (was: On Generations of People and Computers)

From: Kai Kaltenbach <kaikal_at_MICROSOFT.com>
Date: Mon Apr 21 11:48:54 1997

        | Aha! You have a point! Anyone remember the time when
Osborne-1s were
        | supposedly rare and were priced at around $1,000-$10,000? Ha
ha. Nice joke.

This stems from a California reporter who got confused when talking to
collectors and printed in the newspaper that an Osborne 1 sold for over
$10,000. The collectors were actually talking about an Apple I, not an
Osborne 1 (an easy confusion for a layman to make). An Apple I sold at
the Computer Bowl charity auction (filled with billionaires) for that
price, but even that doesn't mean that an Apple I is _worth_ $10K, just
that someone made a nice charity donation in connection with one.

Kai
Received on Mon Apr 21 1997 - 11:48:54 BST