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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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*

October 12 2005 at 5:36 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jack

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.

October 12 2005 at 2:29 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

wheels

Yup, I'll buy the whole lot and my family will have me committed. Insane asylums have good food, don't they"

October 11 2005 at 11:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dave Caolo

*drool* Seriously....yowsa.

October 11 2005 at 9:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

GPSNavX

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.

October 11 2005 at 7:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply