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Large vintage computer museum collection on eBay auction block
Here's one for the rich collectors out there. There's an entire computer museum consisting of over 430 vintage and rare computers up on eBay right now. "From Altair to Zenith!" Highlights include the Altair MITS 8800, an Apple Lisa, Apple II+, a bunch of other Apple and Mac systems, Tandys, Commodores and Atari 600XL. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like the seller is willing to split up the lot, so it's all or nothing.
The 7-day auction ends on Oct 15th at 10am PT. Current bid is less than $4,000, but every faithful eBay'er knows that those numbers are meaningless until the last 5 seconds when the sniping begins.
Hey Dave - you have room in your basement for all these, right?
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GPSNavX said 7:37PM on 10-11-2005
That sure sparks allot of memories. I started with a California Computer Systems S-100 system and CP/M back in the early 80's. Messed a bit with Microsoft Fortran, but Turbo Pascal was so much better and faster.
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Dave said 9:51PM on 10-11-2005
*drool* Seriously....yowsa.
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Wheels said 11:59PM on 10-11-2005
Yup, I'll buy the whole lot and my family will have me committed. Insane asylums have good food, don't they"
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Jack said 3:02AM on 10-12-2005
I know I have criticized TUAW posts recent as being fluffy, but I just want to say that stuff like THIS is truly great.
Simply scrolling through the auction listing itself makes me pick up my little Motorola v180 phone and realize how far we've come in technology over the decades.
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SR said 5:37AM on 10-12-2005
you mean the last 0.5 seconds of the auction when the sniping goes off like a frog in a sock (picture it :p) *shakes head*
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