Xerox Alto on ebay (not mine!)

I am not sure there's any correleation at all between deepness of pockets and ability/desire to look after an artefact... Certainly if you've bought something as an investment (which I suspect applies to a lot of antiques, alas), you are going to want to make sure your investment doesn't lose value, Conversely, thoug, if you've bought a reare machien for 'only' a few hundred dollars, you may not look after it as well if you earn that sort of money for an hours work ('Hey, I could byy another hundred of them easily) than if you earn that amount of money in a month. Of course you can't buy another hundred of them, for the simple reason thast there aren't another hundred around on sale My big worry is that preserving classic computers can be very different with the deepest pockets tend not to be scientists or engineers who would know how to do that. -tony