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There is (a collector's market) of course, the provenance can be hard to come by though. There has always been a joke in the Bay Area about buying the product y
by ChuckMcM 2y ago
There is (a collector's market) of course, the provenance can be hard to come by though. There has always been a joke in the Bay Area about buying the product you helped design and ship at the "DeAnza Flea Market" (which is actually the AVSRO flea market[1] but was held in the DeAnza community college for many years).
There is some nostalgia there, especially from former employees. But generally the 'premium' is limited[2]. Mostly because collectibles have to 'connect' with the collector in some way, and outside of a relatively small community a lot of startup stuff doesn't really make that connection.
[1] https://www.electronicsfleamarket.com/ https://www.electronicsfleamarket.com/
[2] I have a super rare jacket from "First Person Inc" the wholly owned subsidiary Sun created for Project Green/Oak/Java that has an embroidered 'Fang' (the Java mascot) and the product name 'WebRunner'. Only given out to the original Java team. WebRunner was the name of the Hotjava browser before Sun's lawyers chickened out because Taligent had a similar trademark. I expect it is worth over 10 times what Bryan paid for the logowear t-shirt at Goodwill (0.25) :-). It would probably be worth more if was Gosling's jacket instead of mine.
- jszymborski 2y ago> an embroidered 'Fang' (the Java mascot) I thought Duke was the mascot. Is this some earlier mascot? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Duke_(Java_mascot)_waving.svg#mw-jump-to-license https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Duke_(Java_mascot)_w...
- ChuckMcM 2y agoJoe Palrang (the guy who drew him) and the Java team called him 'Fang' (he looks like a tooth right?) Somebody didn't like that name (I don't recall if it was corporate or Kim Polese) and at some point the word went out that his name was "Duke".
- jszymborski 2y agoCool! Thanks for the history :) I genuinely never liked the name. Fang is much better.
- Cheng2023 2y ago[dead]
- joshu 2y agoit's ASVARO. the SV is silicon valley.
- ChuckMcM 2y agoYou are correct of course, I mangled the name. At least I got the web site link right :-).