At 05:30 AM 9/10/03 -0400, you wrote:
>There are plenty of 1950's era computers which are one-of-a-kind. Sadly,
>many of them went to the scrapper.
The ironic thing is that the truely one of a kind (or very limited
production) computers aren't very collectable since few people know of
them. I'm sure the people on this list can name lots of computers that were
had less than 200 produced. And none of them would command the kind of
price thaat the Apple I's do. I ran into the same thing when collecting
cars. I have a 1970 Dodge Challanger RT convertible. The Challangers were
only built for 3 years, convertibles only built for 2 years, only 269 RT
convertibles were ever built. It's a LOT rarer than the Mustangs but
everyone knows about the Mustangs and that's what everyone wants so the
Mustangs are worth more than the Challangers.
Joe
>
>Peace... Sridhar
>
>On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, TeoZ wrote:
>
>> Compared to rare stamp and coin collecting its a drop in the bucket for
>> something thats very rare (but not 1 of a kind)
>> Since I am curious whats the rarest/most expensive computer? I assume its a
>> one of a kind that has some major historical value.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf_at_siconic.com>
>> To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 11:44 AM
>> Subject: Re: Another Apple 1 for sale
>>
>>
>> > On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 ghldbrd_at_ccp.com wrote:
>> >
>> > > He should sell it to those guys in Nigeria, the 419 boys.
>> > >
>> > > Let me know when the price drops to just ludicrous.
>> >
>> > On the contrary, $20K is the going rate for a typical Apple-1. With all
>> > that he's offering, it's actually a good deal.
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> > Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
>> Festival
>> >
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Received on Wed Sep 10 2003 - 08:24:42 BST