From: Colgrove, George (George.Colgrove_at_state.vt.us)
Date: Tue Aug 20 2002 - 06:33:19 EDT
The interesting thing is that IBM repeated this mistake with the Transnote
computer. This time with a SVGA screen and a 600MHz Processor in a time
where we are in GHz range.
BTW what is a good computer to buy that has the same size (+/-) as a TP701c
and under a $100.00? I don't care much about processor speed as I will
pretty much be writing on it anyway.
George
|-----Original Message-----
|From: Randal Whittle [mailto:rwhittle_at_usa.net]
|Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 2:48 PM
|To: epbrown01_at_att.net; TP List
|Subject: Re: Market value of 701C (was: Looking to buy 600x or 770)
|
|
|At 01:07 PM 8/19/2002 -0500, you wrote:
|> On eBay they seem to favor parting them out.
|The last
|> complete 701C
|>I bought was $130 or so, up from the $75/ea. I paid a while back for 5
|>of them.
|> I don't know about them being collectables, though.
|We're fast
|>approaching the point where a 486-75 system won't be worth booting up,
|>even as a novelty.
|
| Indeed.
|
| I had a 701--and loved it. But the past is the past.
| Anyone who
|thinks it will be a collectible...well, they're fooling
|themselves. Its a
|collectible about as much as my old Atari 800, or an Apple II, or the
|original IBM PC--which is to say, it is not and never will be.
| Its just
|another piece of obsolete equipment, regardless of how clever its
|engineering was for its time.
|
| The odd thing is that almost from the time it was
|first released,
|the 701 was already obsolete at a CPU level. That's one of
|the reasons it
|didn't last long as a viable market product, and IBM literally
|*dumped*
|them through channels, hacking away at price, etc. Amazingly
|enough, they
|were even giving them away in IBM insider channels. They had
|a "Friends
|and Family" program that if you as an employee got 3 or 4
|(maybe 5?) people
|to buy one (at employee-discounted pricing), then IBM gave you
|one for *free*.
|
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