altair 8800

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Sat Jul 28 01:19:27 2001

At 12:26 AM 7/28/01 -0500, Lawerence wrote:
>Dumb question, but what might an Altair 8800 be worth these days?

Your right it is a dumb question. How much are you willing to pay for it?
That is what its worth to you. On Ebay you could probably find someone
willing to pay $1000 to $2000 for it. A really nice one went for about
$1600. On this list, you probably wouldn't find anyone willing to pay more
than $700 for it.

Is it going to be useful or are you going to try and pay for a semester of
the kids college with it? Will anyone care next year enough to buy it? Who
knows? Remember when a PDP-8/E on Ebay would fetch three, even four
thousand dollars? Guess what, they are lucky if they break $1000 now.

So the question may not be "dumb" but it is certainly unanswerable in any
authoritative way.

--Chuck
Received on Sat Jul 28 2001 - 01:19:27 BST