On 8/3/23 00:45, Joshua Rice via cctalk wrote: > Value is a very much reliant on both desirability and historical > significance. I guarantee most people who own an Apple 1 never use it, and it > sits in a cabinet/shelf somewhere. Transversely, I’m sure there’s very few > Amiga 1200’s purely on display, with the vast majority in collectors hands > either tucked in a cupboard or actively used. > > The Apple 1 is collectible purely because it was the first product Apple > made. There’s dozens of similar machines from the same time period, vcreated > by startups looking to be the next big thing, that just didn’t make it. Look > at SWTPC, look at IMSAI, the COSMAC ELF. Apple made it to the big time, and > they didn’t, so many more people with too much money would consider the Apple > 1 to be a wise investment. > > I’d still prefer the IMSAI 8080 or SWTPC 6800 though.
Collection values are so subjective that to me, that they make little sense. For example, is a Mac that belonged to Steve Jobs more valuable than the same model Mac that belonged to Harvey Schmidlap? Same machine--I doubt that any scientific test could affirm that Jobs was still alive in the former. But the difference to collectors may be a couple orders of magnitude. But then, I see little difference in value between an original painting and an expert copy. Yes, I know, I have no soul! --Chuck
