[GreenKeys] ebay 33ASR sells for $2325.00

[David I. Emery]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 06:40:35PM -0500, Seth Morabito wrote:
> Now, of course, the vintage computer marketplace is through the roof.
> It's just a reality, and I can accept it even if I'm not all that
> happy about it. Such is life.

> I think it'll be too bad if it happens to the Teletype world. I'm just
> lucky I managed to get a 33 for cheap when I did! I'm no more
> interested in Teletypes for the money than I am computers.  I enjoy
> using mine, that's all I want out of it.

	FWIW, I have often speculated over the years that clever
mechanical devices like model 15 and 28 and 33 teletypes have an
intrinsic kinetic art appeal just as elegant antique clocks do and may
some day have a substantial interest to collectors who see them as 
kinetic sculpture.

	I'm not so sure that a 1960s or 1970s minicomputer or an
early microcomputer has quite the tactile, auditory, and visual
delight (except maybe the blinkenlights on the control panels or
the spinning tape drives) of a Teletype printing something.

	Early collectible computers certainly do have appeal as
historically important artifacts on which a profound revolution was
created, but you cannot just sit there hypnotized by watching them work.

	I predict some day some Teletypes will be worth a lot
in working printing condition.



-- 
  Dave Emery N1PRE/AE, die at dieconsulting.com  DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass 02493
"An empty zombie mind with a forlorn barely readable weatherbeaten
'For Rent' sign still vainly flapping outside on the weed encrusted pole - in 
celebration of what could have been, but wasn't and is not to be now either."