Re: Early apple employees Dick and Cliff Huston selling off collection

[Toinet <antoine.vignau@laposte.net>]

On 17 mar, 17:36, MdntTrain <j...@cimmeri.com> wrote:
> On Mar 16, 9:59 am, Mike Maginnis <mmagin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > This showed up in the classiccmp list today.  Yeah, they're eBay
> > auctions.  Most of this stuff is way out of my budget, but maybe
> > someone here might be interested.
>
> > Disclaimer:  I have nothing to do with these listing or the sellers.
>
> >http://shop.ebay.com/earlyapple/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_t...
>
> > More info about the auctions here:
>
> >http://www.cultofmac.com/early-apple-employees-auction-killer-collect...
>
> > - Mike
>
> Have you all ever seen Antiques Roadshow, where old items are
> appraised by experts (usually auctioneers with other houses) on TV?
>
> Are Apple engineering prototype boards and such really the kind of
> stuff that's going to be showing up on such shows 20, 50, 100 years
> from now?   I just don't know that it qualifies as such.   A PCB will
> never be like a Tiffany lamp to the general population, although it
> might be better to some of us.
>
>  jSy ol

He, eh! good explanation and thought.

I personally like antiques (old furniture, *real* old chinese ancestor
portraits) and things that predate the 19th century which will become
rare and will probably be liked by other *humans* - I own old (really
old stuff) and I like them because of their history and smell (ah the
smell) and Im pretty sure we will like PCBs, collect (worship ?) them
because of their history.

According to me, that is the history linked to the item (or the item's
history) that is important (to me :-)

That is the kind of things I like with the brothers' mouse: a change
in history, oh, a change in IT history and I agree with you, that is
change for 1% of us, the other 99% see that as a tool, not as what it
has brought to the others.

I'm not an engineer and I wish I had seen/lived what guys like MJM or
the Apple 1 brothers had seen/lived

antoine