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Hold onto your Macs - They'll Be Worth Something (one day)
By Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac
January 2nd 2003
Start diggin' up them Lisas.
Grab that dusty Lisa or Mac 128 and put it on ebay - because you could make yourself a
small fortune.
A Reuters report at Macon Area Online looks at the strong bidding for vintage
computers in recent years. The Woz-Jobs Apple Is, of which there were only 200, fetch
between $14,000 and $25,000.
Old stuff is popular: think Tandy laptops; Kaypro desktops but, oddly, no mention of
Altairs.
Microsoft CYO Nathan Myhrvold obviously has more money than sense; he bought a relay
rack which belonged to a Second World War ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and
Calculator), a huge mainframe, of which only bits and pieces remain.
We wonder what his wife said when he brought that home (when you consider how many
shoes you can buy for $70,000).
But common-as-muck PCs don't fetch much. So don't expect your PowerBook 100 to get big
bids (at least not until 2020). Original IBM PCs, while they do get sold, attract only
$20-$50 bids.
Apple/Macintosh models are among the most popular, however. We've heard in Japan that
small second-hand shops devote entire sections of their shelves to old Macs - Japan is
a land where the Color Classic and Color Classic II still fetch healthy prices, for
example.
We'd bet that the odd Outbound [a Mac OS PowerBook clone with some interesting
features, such as a detachable screen] fetches a reasonable sum, due primarily to its
rarity. Mac Portables, far from popular in their lifetime, are eagerly sought after by
PowerBook/Mac afficionados.
Cubes, too, probably have the best depreciation (or return on investment, depends on
your perspective) of any G4 model - or any recent Mac, for that matter. Given their
short production run and less-than-impressive sales, we'd wager by 2010 they'd fetch a
pretty penny.
And if they don't, at least the Cube's a helluva lot easier to turn into a Macquarium.
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