10 Sep
2024
10 Sep
'24
9:28 p.m.
On Sep 10, 2024, at 4:31 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Tue, 10 Sep 2024, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
Nope. But the Enigma is a four-rotor Navy model, not the more common 3-rotor one. I
didn't know that the Navy had those; I had heard of 4-rotor machines only as something
the Gestapo used.
Wow, someone paid $56k for a MITS ALTAIR. And
$945k for an Apple 1. Not to mention $718k for an Enigma machine. A bunch of things went
for way above the estimate, while for others it's much closer. One wonders why; I
suppose a possible explanation is "because the auction house doesn't particularly
understand the market for these things".
Any special provenance? (Hitler's personal Enigma?, BillG's' Altair?,
Steve's Apple?) Or just multiple bidders on each item, unaware of more
reasonable sources?
(I think that those prices are high, or the bidders were)
Seems that way. For that matter, so does $250k for the Xerox Alto, and a round million
for the Cray 1. Not to mention $32k for the Cyber console display (I would have liked
that one, but not at that price!). And perhaps craziest of all, $189k for a 360/91
console display. Just the lights panel, nothing more.
paul