That price is interesting. Does that imply the value has gone down after some skyrocketed close to 1 million? One still has to make the decision of a owning a house or an apple 1.
On Thu, Aug 3, 2023, 1:08 AM Christian Corti via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Wed, 2 Aug 2023, Murray McCullough wrote: > > Classic computers have a value in our capitalist society. Take the > Apple-1: > > Not necessarily. Something only gets a value if there is a demand or > market. As I repeatedly see old classic systems scrapped because nobody > wants them/has space to store them, there can't be such a high value. For > example, how do you tax a Mincal 523? We have the only one that survived. > I'd say, it's "priceless", you can't attribute a value to it, because > there's neither a market nor a reference to compare with. > The only reason why the Apple 1 has a monetary value is because it has > become a pure investment object. Everything else is just worthless, except > perhaps the video shift registers ;-) > > Christian >
