I disagree.
Collecting firearms has been greatly complicated by recent laws, yet
it remains very popular. Getting old iron shipped does not require the
paperwork and problems having a rifle or handgun shipped across state
lines does.
Vintage hardware is valuable, and will appreciate in value. Demand will
rise, and supplies will only drop for the really classic stuff.
What do you think people might pay for a working Imsai 8080 in 20 years?
Jeff Hellige wrote:
> >Take a big step back and look at us, we are half way to the loony bin for
> >collecting this stuff. Old computers are NOT an investment opportunity, and
> >nobody normal is going to start thinking they are from a few human interest
> >stories.
>
> I'd have to agree. Most of it isn't worth enough to make
> having to deal with how bulky it is worth while from a dealer's
> standpoint. It's not like coins and stamps where you can toss all
> the really common stuff into a box. This is what will keep
> speculators zeroing in on specific machines to buy/sell vice doing as
> they did with the various other hobbies and buying everything under
> the sun. In that respect, due to the space requirements, this hobby
> is more like the classic car collector. In that hobby it's still
> possible to get some really nice cars for a reasonable amount but
> certain specfic areas, such as 60's muscle cars or your luxury cars
> from the 30's, are well outside the price range of most.
>
> This isn't to say there isn't some pretty good price gouging
> going on with regards to some classic computer stuff, because there
> is. The few truly high dollar machines though aren't indicative of
> the valuation of the rest.
>
> Jeff
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Received on Sat Aug 04 2001 - 10:47:21 BST