> -----Original Message----- > From: j...@cimmeri.com > Sent: Sat, 01 Oct 2016 15:57:45 -0500 > To: gene...@classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: ka... ching! > > > On 10/1/2016 3:21 PM, N0body H0me wrote: >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: ccl...@sydex.com >>> Sent: Sat, 1 Oct 2016 11:12:02 -0700 >>> To: cctalk@classiccmp.org >>> Subject: Re: ka... ching! >>> >>> On 10/01/2016 08:27 AM, j...@cimmeri.com wrote: >>> >>>> But, like airplanes and boats, this looks like only a rich person's >>>> game. >>> ... >>> >>> The game has changed, obviously. We are in an era now when folks with >>> too much money and spare time and narcissism want to buy and sell and >>> display toys rather than play with them. >>> >>> Looks like it's time to get out of this racket. >>> >>> --Chuck >> Yeh. Once we started seeing Classical Computers that could be considered >> 'investment grade', prices just got ridiculous for everything. Everyone >> with an old computer in their closet started seeing dollar-signs. > > From where I sit, the big prices seem > mostly centered around Apple 1's and > this Twiggy Lisa. Have any other > computers have gone astronomical like these? > > - J.
Maybe not astronomical, but most of the systems I'm interested in, anyways, are almost always outside my price range. A good example: I bought my first ss-50 machine for $50. That's $116 in today's money. Not lunch money, but not out of reach. Try to buy an SS-50 today (like say, an SwTPc 6800 or similar). You can't SMELL one for under $600-800, and more likely you're going to have to pony up a grand or more. I tried to buy a PDP-11/23 on Craigslist. "Make offer" the ad said. I made an offer. No response. No "no thank you" or "I was really hoping to get $________". Nothing. Make another offer, still nothing. A week goes by, and I'm looking at e-pay. The EXACT SAME machine is now listed. Opening bid was $100. I didn't bid; there are too many people playing games like this.... So, it's not 'astronomical' just out of reach. If I didn't still have a bunch of stuff I acquired when it was still all reasonably priced, I likely wouldn't bother..... N0body