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Re: Unbelievable Auctions

golfrock wrote:

OK, Sean.  Are those Beagle Bros products working for you?

Anyway, back to the main topic....

An Apple //e has been bid up to $250!!  Item #110002196776.

This is getting insane.


Yep--it must be the nice box.  ;-)

I feel like we spent years here talking about how it would be great
to get more people interested in vintage computers.  Then a couple
of TV programs featured the "growing hobby" and "collectibles", and
now we've got more than we wished for!

Although this will keep some machines from going to landfill, I fear
that it won't get many more of them actually used...

Of course, it does give our heirs more options when disposing of our
gear.  ;-)

The irony is that, collectors will almost certainly not focus on the
truly rare and interesting devices, like the SwyftCard, or A/D converter
cards, since they were so far outside the mainstream.

-michael

Parallel computing for 8-bit Apple II's!
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