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  1. TheMayor

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    #1 TheMayor, May 26, 2013
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    Will today's techies think vintage technology is a lot cooler to collect than collector cars?

    No, I'm serious. We live in a tech world. Kids today know and care about technology. Who is going to care about a 57 Chevy when you were born in 2007?

    But a first production Ipad? Hmmmmm.

    Now, before you say I'm crazy, remember that the car collector market is really only about 50 years old. Before that, they were just "old cars". What comes into fashion can also go out of fashion.

    For the price of this computer, you could buy 2 Dino's....

    Vintage Apple computer auctioned off for $668,000 :: WRAL.com


    German auction house Breker said Saturday an Asian client, who asked not to be named, bought the so-called Apple 1, which the tech company's founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built in a family garage.

    Breker claims it is one of only six known remaining functioning models in the world. Breker already sold one last year for 492,000 euros.

    It says the computer bears Wozniak's signature. An old business transaction letter from the late Jobs also was included.

    The Apple 1, which was sold for $666 in 1976, consisted of only the circuit board. A case, a keyboard and a screen had to be bought separately.
     
  2. GTE

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    #2 GTE, May 26, 2013
    Once vintage cars are widely accepted as 'objets d'art' rather than just old cars, the market will be fine. Mind you, paintings are still going for millions, yet there have been invented many better ways to freeze a picture in time.

    I did however read somewhere that these days kids rather spend their money on the newest smartphone than on their first car.
     
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    #3 355dreamer, May 26, 2013
    Well bought.
     
  4. donv

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    #4 donv, May 26, 2013
    An Apple I was hand built by Jobs and Wozniak. They made something like 200 of them. Each one was essentially a prototype. So yeah, it's a piece of history. But don't think your first gen iPad is going to be worth much, at least for the next 200 years or so.
     
  5. BULL RUN

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    #5 BULL RUN, May 27, 2013
    Especially 60's and 70's muscle cars are doomed to demographics. They're only appreciated by boomers that will soon have to sell them off in favor of health care, and other priorities. The next gen could care less.
     
  6. rob lay

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    #6 rob lay, May 27, 2013
    hmm, will there be any market on the IIe and IIc? we basically gave ours away for free.
     
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    #7 mseals, May 27, 2013
    Well, since you 'gave' them away.... it's more likely than not.

    :D

    Mike
     
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    #8 rob lay, May 27, 2013
    In 1988. :)
     
  9. tritone

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    #9 tritone, May 27, 2013
    silly me.....I gave away my 'case-signed' 512K Mac many years ago......sure they're now worth more than my Ferrari......
     
  10. DriveAfterDark

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    #10 DriveAfterDark, May 27, 2013
    Better search the classifieds for a mint 1st gen. iPod and hold on to it for 30 years, then...
     

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