Vintageness

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Fri May 11 15:17:39 2001

On Fri, 11 May 2001, Vance Dereksen wrote:

> On Fri, 11 May 2001, Mike Ford wrote:
>
> > I take generic cold tablets, loath generic root beer, and have a sealed
> > original Apple item, that in used but good condition I have sold to members
> > of this list for $12, on auction with a current bid of about $600 with 3
> > days left.
> >
> > If its something you want to use, get one that works well, or even works
> > the best, generic is fine.
> >
> > In matters of taste, go for the real thing, Barq's or A&W.
>
> Hallelujah, brother! Go tell it on the mountain!
>
> > Collectibility has its own rules, but sealed original mint etc. mean money.
> > The only thing better is history, which is sort of the partner to
> > uniqueness.
>
> Condition all depends on the rarity of the item. The condition of an
> ancient Phoenician wooden trade coin doesn't really matter. It's that
> rare.
>
> > The problem I think we are having is the intersection of collectible items
> > that some of us wish to use, and where the cost of the replica is close to
> > the cost of an original. A classic example of this that we can look back on
> > instead of speculation on the future are the Gordon Gow editions of the
> > classic Macintosh MC275 tube amplifier. At a time when the original MC275
> > amps were selling in very good condition for about $1500, MacIntosh
> > released the Gordon Gow remake at $5000, with the street price dropping to
> > about $3200 after a year or so. The re-release killed the collectible value
> > of the originals, as the average person was a USER not a COLLECTOR, and
> > greatly prefered the new more reliable etc. unit.
>
> The originals are still worth quite a bit in the collectors market. Their
> value just dropped on the open market. And what about new collectible
> stuff like the MC2000? And, BTW, its McIntosh, not MacIntosh. 8-) I'm
> nitpicking though.

And nitpicking erroneously. Apple, in their infinite wisdom, seems to
think that it should be spelled "Macintosh".

                                                 - don

> Peace... Sridhar
>
>
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