Big dollars paid for Altair 8800 on Ebay

For the record I have Zenith Z100 #2 stored away. I know for a fact #1 was scrapped for parts, and I waited several years before someone in the lab fulfilled an old lunch room promise and saw to it that it found its way to me. You can not believe the shock when one night someone showed up at my cave and said they had a computer for my collection. It was the first contribution to my collection that I or my father did not purchase new for big bucks :) The first time I saw #2 was when I tested a Corvis interface I had designed and built as a contractor of a Zenith Distributor. I had to give it back when testing was finished. I made the request at the time, that when they junked that old motherboard, not to throw it away, I wanted it. The Corvis project was big point in my life as it was the first PCB I ever designed and eched. I made the bios mods to implement the Corvis shared file system over the world worst interface. The test system I was given to use, had been heavily modified over time. It started it's life out as a test board, and has has a zillion wire mods on the back and front of the first generation mother board. In it's second life, I added a 5 1/4 hard disk and an 8087. I mostly ran Autocad on it. It will most likely continue to rot in storage until I run out of money and I am forced to ebay it , to pay my internet bill :) I can only hope that by then Denise has had his fill of IBM stuff, and takes a likings to the early days of micro development. Are there any other Z-100 collectors out there ? Bob Bradlee On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 18:51:52 +0200, Tore S Bekkedal wrote: