Re: For Auction: Original Edition Akalabeth for Apple II

[Fortran <fortrandragon@hotmail.com>]

My glass typewriter shows Frank Townsend pondering...
[Snip
> Anyway, my point is the same: once the item is just a new disk and a disk
> label, as Gertrude Stein said, "There's no there there."  Even if the label
> is original, it is still a chimeric product, and doesn't have the
> significance of the original or the history of a real original that,
> although produced in such miniscule numbers still survived over 20 years.
> IMHO.

	I agree that the original 12, assuming any still exist, would be 
the most valuable, but certainly a vintage Akalabeth created by RG has 
its worth.

> 
> Reminds me of the Carroll Shelby 427 Cobra S/C project which continued
> production of "leftover" S/C models from 1966.  However, although these were
> valuable, certainly there were no pretense that they were the Real Deal, but
> new cars made with some old and mostly new parts.  Same here.

	No, _only_ the disk is new.  Everything else is vintage and it is 
the everything else that most collectors want.  :)



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