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

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com>]

"Steven Hirsch" <snhirsch@gmail.com> wrote in message h7adnZik-9YAnDfWnZ2dnUVZ_jSdnZ2d@giganews.com">news:h7adnZik-9YAnDfWnZ2dnUVZ_jSdnZ2d@giganews.com...
> Michael J. Mahon wrote:
>
>>> Another person with too much extra money bought the Apple I for
>>> $42,766.  Amazing!  The economy must be doing good somewhere.  :)
>>
>> It's a good investment--a prime specimen bought below typical
>> market price.
>>
>> Many fortunes were made following the Great Depression, since valuable
>> assets were sold for pennies on the dollar.
>
> In general, I'd concur with that statement.  However, I really think that amount is just over the top for a piece of equipment 
> with little meaning to anyone outside the microcomputing world.  Certainly I wouldn't put an Apple I in the same category as, e.g. 
> a piece of fine art or a painting.  Or even, for the musicians among us, a 1958 Cherry Sunburst Gibson Les Paul guitar.  FYI: 
> these have sold for in excess of $500,000.
>
> Steve

You mention that the Apple I has its own niche market. But then, your
other examples, fine art and vintage guitars, also have their own niche
markets. So where is the difference in your statement?

A collector is a collector. The person who bought the Apple I for $42,766
isn't necessarily a vintage computerist as we are. They may have merely
seen something that will increase in value and took a chance on that fact.

Bill