Posted on 04/27/2010 8:09:47 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
Can anyone tell me if market prices of old vintage home computers have started going up yet? I'm talking about things like the Apple II and the commodore 64 and other pre-windows using home computers. I heard a rumor the original game consoles(atari and such) have started being collected and prices are going nuts.
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GRiDs were pretty impressive in their day. I wanted one but couldn't afford it.
Grid Systems patented the clamshell laptop design, but apparently did not understand how valuable the patent was, and never collected royalties. That changed after Tandy bought the company.
Including the memory boards, I think I paid about $3500 for my Imsai. That was about one-tenth of what a house cost. And I had to assemble it myself.
I'm saving my Imsai until my grandson gets old enough to be interested. He's not yet two, so it will be a couple of years yet.
I once sent away for the sales literature package for the Imsai. Never bought the machine, too much money for too little benefit. But I sold the paperwork a few years ago for very good money.
well, it was way back when. My husband seemed to think we had to have one. One of the firsts, and I learned to try and convince him thinks will cost less if we wait. 800 is the number sticking in my head. Might have been worth it. My three sons learned simple programming and now earn their living that way. I didn’t think so at the time! My oldest is still buying first though, he’s an independent IT guy who always has the newest, some newer than new.
No. You can get emulators for all flavors of vintage computers and console games. The only value is in the physical item as an item, not for the computing “power.”
Occaisionally, you’ll see high auction prices for rare software/carts, but as a rule these things are stable in price and many have actually declined due to the ubiquity of online swap sites and ebay.
Thanks for the information. I do recall that SNET and CSX were together in a venture, but I never kept up with it. Thanks for the lesson.
Available from:
http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html
What most people probably don't know, was that Zork was originally written on the MIT mainframe. When the authors packaged it for play on the home computers of the day, they had to cut huge amounts of the game out and broke it into three parts, Zork I, II, III. The original mainframe version is now available for download as well.
Available from
http://almy.us/dungeon.html
Sheesh, It’s gonna be awhile before I get time to really dig into all the comments and post a few responses.
Or forgotten.
I was told Apple computers have great resale value. Apparently that’s not always true.
That game was funny.
Look in mirror
>You see an ugly person looking back at you.
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