19 Nov
2002
19 Nov
'02
10:13 a.m.
I was certainly considering buying this setup with the intent of
reselling it after scrounging the Computer Notes stuff but there's no
way I'd do that at $4k+.
Still, if you do the math it might work out for either the chip or
computer collector. On eBay Altairs run at $2,500-$3,500 with docs, the
chip might fetch $1,000 to a collector (remember the MITS CPU board that
sold for nearly $800 on the value of the chip alone?). . . so the
current bid of $4,000 is right on for eBay prices, as crazy as that
sounds.
Erik S. Klein
www.vintage-computer.com
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From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Sellam Ismail
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 1:57 PM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: RE: Whats wrong with chip collecting? (SOL-20)
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Erik S. Klein wrote:
I was considering bidding on this until the price
reached the
stratosphere. I'd be willing to bet that the buyer can find a chip
collector to take that C8080 off his hands for at least $1,500. On
the
other side of lunacy I'd be willing to pay the
winner something
substantially less then that for the Computer Notes that are part of
the
auction.
It would be funny to think a computer collector is bidding on this with
the intent of selling the CPU to a chip collector to recoup maybe half
the
cost, or a chip collector is bidding it up for the 8080 and is planning
to
sell the Altair to recoup the cost.
At any rate, like eBay stock, it's over-valued.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
Festival
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