I recently picked up a commodore 64 at a rummage sale for $10. It has allnecissary cords and has disk drive. It works. The serial number seems low to me. It is 00326896. It is original "bread box" model. Do you think its worth anything?
Not really, old technology isn't like an old vase. It's still new enough to not be that rare and even when it is super rare it's only really there to be a mantlepiece.
Be realistic, how many people even want a pristine just from the factory old piece of tech sitting against their wall? Not many. If you found it at a sale its unlikely to be in pristine condition either.
The only technological artifacts that accrue in value are the ones that belong in museums.
If you look on eBay, you can see a bunch of Commodore 64s going for between $20-$100. The ones that cost more than $20 either have extras like the printer or disk drives and/or have no bids on them. So yeah, $20 or so appears to be the going price for them.
Just hold onto it for a long while. Eventually it will become a collectors item like the Apple One (which can easily sell for 50k)
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The commodore 64 sold over 17,000,000 (17 million) units, and most people held onto them. For comparison, that is about as "rare" as the Gamecube (~22mil).
They will never reach a high value. Not for 75 or 100 years, then maybe a working one would be worth something.
The reason AppleI computers sell for so much is because they did not make many of them, they were basically made by woz/jobs in their garage by hand, and they were not meant as a production piece of technology. Seriously, it was made in their garage and really wasn't meant for production, that is why it was rare.
You are comparing something not meant for production that there exists less than 100 of, to a production and HUGELY popular console that sold almost 20 million units worldwide.
As of 2013, at least 61 Apple I computers are documented to exist (plus an indefinite number of possible unreported cases). Only six have been verified to be in working condition.
A better comparison would be the C64 to the Amiga (which sold similar numbers and was from around the same time) or NES. Neither of which are also of much value unless still in the packaging (in which case, they are not worth terribly much even then).
Be realistic, how many people even want a pristine just from the factory old piece of tech sitting against their wall? Not many. If you found it at a sale its unlikely to be in pristine condition either.
If you look on eBay, you can see a bunch of Commodore 64s going for between $20-$100. The ones that cost more than $20 either have extras like the printer or disk drives and/or have no bids on them. So yeah, $20 or so appears to be the going price for them.
The commodore 64 sold over 17,000,000 (17 million) units, and most people held onto them. For comparison, that is about as "rare" as the Gamecube (~22mil).
They will never reach a high value. Not for 75 or 100 years, then maybe a working one would be worth something.
Especially not when a new C64 console exists:
http://www.engadget....nveils-far-les/
The reason AppleI computers sell for so much is because they did not make many of them, they were basically made by woz/jobs in their garage by hand, and they were not meant as a production piece of technology. Seriously, it was made in their garage and really wasn't meant for production, that is why it was rare.
You are comparing something not meant for production that there exists less than 100 of, to a production and HUGELY popular console that sold almost 20 million units worldwide.
https://en.wikipedia...lector.27s_item
A better comparison would be the C64 to the Amiga (which sold similar numbers and was from around the same time) or NES. Neither of which are also of much value unless still in the packaging (in which case, they are not worth terribly much even then).
With the new C64 available, the price might actually end up going down unless you find that one specific collector who wants it.
In 40 years it will be around 70 years since the C64 came out, I'm guessing very few C64's will still work.
Going at that rate, the number in 40 years will be 62%, which is about the same now as the Genesis, which also is not rare nor valuable.