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Vintage Tech Goes Under the Hammer

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday September 22 2015, @08:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the bet-they-are-energy-hogs dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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: 2) by srobert on Tuesday September 22 2015, @02:36PM

    by srobert (4803) on Tuesday September 22 2015, @02:36PM (#239959)

    I found my 4 cdrom set of Slackware 96 from Walnut Creek. I wonder if that would be a collectors' item.

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday September 22 2015, @04:48PM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Tuesday September 22 2015, @04:48PM (#240047) Homepage
    Argh - that beats my 1997 InfoMagic 6 CD set of distros including RH4.2, Debian 1.3.1, and Slackware 3.3, packages such as XF86 3.3.1 and Apache 1.2.1, and various other source mirrors such as GNU and Sunsite.

    However, it doesn't beat what's on my 8" floppies - don't make me get out my 8" floppies and find the CP/M boot disks...
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