10 May
2010
10 May
'10
9:59 a.m.
Can you supply a link to the rare Nintendo cartridge, or more info so I can
such for it? (I suspect searching for "rare Nintendo cartridge" would end up
with a few thousand results on eBay (or Google) instead of the one I'm
after)
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Curt @ Atari Museum" <curt at atarimuseum.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 2:34 AM
Subject: Re: Last day for John Blankenbaker's Kenbak-1
I thought we were in such a horrible recession...
seems like people have
a lot of disposable income lately...
$25,000 Kenbak
$31,000 Atari 2600 "Air Raid" boxed Cartridge
$41,000 Rare Nintendo cartridge
Curt
Brent Hilpert wrote:
> Evan Koblentz wrote:
>
>>>> eBay item number: 320522921808
>>>>
>>>> This is one of John's original hand-built machines. Details in the
>>>> auction.
>>>>
>>>> It's at $6,400 now. I personally expect that to more than triple by
the
>>>> end, but that's just me. :)
>>>>
>>> Half-hour to go, it's up to $9,900 .... will be fun to watch this go
>>> up! Wish I could afford to bid. :(
>>>
>>>
>> Wow .... with 20 seconds to go, it jumped from 9900 to 20100, then with
>> five seconds to go it jumped to 25600, then ended.
>>
>
> I can appreciate some degree of added value for this particular unit
giving
> it's direct providence to Blankenbaker, and
as much I might think the
Kenbak is
> neat for technical reasons such as a minimal
processor made from SSI/MSI
> devices, bit-serial architecture, and so on, this is one where I really
scratch
> my head over the dollar value people are placing
on them, given their
obscurity
> in their day and relative lack of influence on
computing development.
> (just MHO ...)
>
>