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An Apple 1 motherboard, a 79-year-old TV and the only surviving processor of the last supercomputer designed by Seymour Cray are being auctioned in New York.
The 1936 Baird television set may not work and delivers a huge electrical charge of 5000 volts.
But it could still fetch between $20,000 (£13,000) and $30,000, according to auctioneer Bonhams.
The Apple 1 has a starting price of $300,000.
Do you have any vintage pieces you'd like to sell in the auction? Are there any items you'd like to add to your collection?
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(Score: 1) by SomeGuy on Tuesday September 22 2015, @01:43PM
There are lots of different people with different interests. And there are lots of rare and underrated machines out there.
There is a lot of general interest out there in any pre-IBM PC system. Altair, PET, Apple II, C64, TRS-80, etc. Quite a bit of interest currently in genuine IBM PC 5150, XT 5160, AT 5170s, and for reasons I can't quite fathom :) even IBM PS/2s.
Personally I'm on the lookout for an Eagle PC-1 - The second IBM PC compatible clone after the Columbia Data Products 1600. Eventually I might also look at getting an original Compaq Portable (the third, and more successful IBM PC clone). Don't have piles of money to spend on them though.
There was an Altos 8600, a large multi-user Xenix system, on eBay recently. If they had brought the price down some more I might have considered grabbing that. It didn't seem to sell and they have not re-listed it. I hope it didn't wind up in the scrap pile. :(
I know of someone over at the vintage computing forum who is looking for a Durango Poppy PC. Similar to the Altos, it was meant as what we would these days call an office server, and produced only in small amounts. Keep in mind just because it won't boot an MS-DOS disk doesn't mean it wont work! machines like this are not meant to be IBM PC hardware compatible!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 22 2015, @08:26PM
That was back in the day when "clone" makers were scared that Big Blue would sue them into oblivion for being too similar, so they would make their boxes ~99.9 percent IBM-compatible.
There's an even more memorable element to that company's history:
The Dangers of Success
The day scheduled for the IPO, the company's president wrecked his new sports car and killed himself. [wikipedia.org]
-- gewg_