12 Nov
2010
12 Nov
'10
8:30 a.m.
Marvin Johnston wrote:
I saw this article about a Christie's auction and
found it "funny" in a
way. It will be interesting to find out what it actually brings.
I might go as far as $20. :-) I like machines to be interesting, but don't
care so much about what they were used for or their place in history[1] - and
if I wanted to mess around with hardware of the A1's spec, there are surely
far cheaper ways of doing it.
[1] yeah, it's always nice if they have a "story", but it's not high on
my
list of requirements.
($20's probably rather optimistic though - I'm not sure what the chances are
of finding a 1970's single-board machine for that amount these days. Most of
the "barn finds" are likely long-gone)
cheers
Jules