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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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Frankfort, Kentucky, makes it against the law to shoot off a policeman's tie.
(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_