Exactly! I find all the ASIC equipment fascinating and enjoy trying to get my hands on as many different devices as possible.
I think some of those devices might become VERY valuable as collectibles.
I bough one of the first BE USB at 2.6 BTC!!! and one of the first RF USB for 1.4 BTC!!!, because just like stamps with defects, collectors will look at the soldering of components to see the rarity and age of the item, funny how that resonates well with the 21 million rarity!
My zTex x1.15 will be the crown jewels of the collection. Early and very rare:
Interesting to compare those purchase prices with the 600GH Monarch I bought for 3.6 BTC, I'm pretty convinced that including resale collectors value; the poorly soldered, completely non ROI, crap BE will beat the Monarch hands down; those components are placed by hand and I even got friedcat to send me an original "manually tooled" heatsink from hongkong:
Comparatively the singles will fade away in history (except maybe for the case looking cool but being completely unusable) but they heat the house and feed the monkeys:
