17 Oct
2010
17 Oct
'10
10:07 p.m.
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From: "Michael Lee" <mikelee at tdh.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 12:50 AM
Subject: Re: Xerox Alto on ebay (not mine!)
On 10/13/2010 12:16 PM, Richard wrote:
And a much more recent and equally rare 3dfx Voodoo 6000 AGP video card
(never released maybe a few dozen around) sold for $3,000 or 1/10th the Alto
price.
We had a tech bubble, housing bubble, and now we are going to have a
collectable computer bubble (all that 0% interest money has to go
somewhere).
Out of curiosity how many people here are planning on cashing in?
Current bidding is $560, I'm expecting it to
sell for $750 at a
minimum, maybe $1000+ once the snipers have their say.
As the auction is now over, apparently it is worth just over $30,000 to
the right bidder whomever that may be. Not quite the millions a painting
by a famous artist might be, but definitely not a small chunk of change.
With that said, paintings and artwork can end up in private hands or in
museums, and so will other various "artifacts" including computers.