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

From: Alexios Chouchoulas <alexios_at_vennea.demon.co.uk>
Date: Mon Apr 21 18:53:48 1997

On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, Kai Kaltenbach wrote:

> | 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).

  Ok, that would make sense. It seems that this has become some sort of
urban legend, though -- I remember posts in afc like "I have an Osborne-1.
Make me an offer about $5000." :-)


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