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Originally Posted by MrBungle
Retro gaming is coming back. Retro is however manky old PCs now.
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Here up to 486 is regarded as vintage, while P5 is just coming in to that range.
It's the old story - modern gear becomes old rubbish, then dumpable old rubbish, then starts generating interest and then is vintage/classic. I gave away two Macintosh Portables, a Toshiba T3200SX and five IBM 5160 PC/XTs in the late 1990s, all would be worth a decent sum now.
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Originally Posted by MrBungle
BBC micros are routinely going for £300 a go now.
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I didn't know they'd gotten up to that level in the UK - they are certainly worth $500 or more here, but were less common - by the mid 80s schools were split between BBC and Apple, then between Acorn, Mac and PC - by the time PCs were in the mix Acorn were starting to get very niche.
Poly had disappeared by the mid 80s, thanks to some aggressive marketing of the Apple IIe.