On Saturday, December 7, 2002, at 08:07 pm, Matt Jordan wrote:
I was skipping through my complete eBay account recently, and saw that in early 2001, I sold an SE/30 for �128 - say $200.Hi all,Although I am an avid reader of this list I recently realized that I have been lost in the world of G3 and G4 processors and especially Mac OS X. I saw a post by Gamba where he made a comment about the declining bid price for his eBay auctions and in the interest in the SE/30 in general
Today, I saw Plusses failing to get 99c on eBay.com. However, nice ones that I'm cleaning up, sorting out problems, and finding mice that actually work to go with them are making �30 - say $48 - in the UK at the moment. (But so many mice have undersized balls, or just don't work at all - URL on cleaning instructions, anyone?)
and it got me thinking: Will Classic Macs beWhat are the parallels? Model-T Fords? IMHO, the massive advances in technology in the last 3 years has meant that something like an SE/30 has gone from been the equivalent of a 1960s classic car which you can use for most things that people use their 2001 model car for to the equivalent of a 1920s motor - not really practicable for what most people want their cars to do today, but still a car, and still more interesting than teh 2002 Buick.
forgotten? Everyday more analog boards will fail, CRTs will go dim,
power supplies will burn-out and *shudder* more people will clean out
their closets and trash another compact without thinking twice about it.
For me, classic Macs were the "golden age" of computing. There were
not hundreds of thousands of part vendors and computer makers. Memory
was limited and programmers actually had to think about how to write
code instead of expecting to use up a gigabyte of storage space and
most importantly every new device that came out was wonder: Black and
white "quick cams", scanners, new printers, hard drives bigger than 80
MB and so on. Now all of this stuff is taken for granted and in the
strive for bigger and better and in the search for processor faster
than a GHz, it seems that no one looks back at the 8 MHz wonders.
Does anyone think that we will witness the "death of the classics"?
(The day when there are not even enough of us to even keep lists like
this going?)
When another 100,000K Plusses are in landfill, perhaps people will appreciate those which are left a little more. ;-)
Stuart
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