Intel C8080A chip brings $565 on EBAY

Actually, the chip was offered by a well known German collector. He found two of these chips. He kept one and put the other on EBAY. I was bidding against another american collector who probably has the largest collection of old microprocessors in the USA. We were the only two bidders. Other collectors were interested in the chip (several emailed me) and did not bid because they knew who was going to be bidding on the chip. I know the guy I was bidding against. We have traded chips in the past. I raised my bid once before he ever bid because I was expecting that he would try and take the chip in the final seconds of the auction. Instead he bid once, outbid my high bid, I came back and started bidding (multiple times) until I finally took the high bid, and that was that, Before you dismiss us chip collectors as a bunch of "idiots", you might take a few minutes and check out some of the sites springing up on the net dedicated to chip collecting. A good example is www.cpu-museum.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zach Malone" <Diff(a)Mac.com> To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 9:24 PM Subject: Re: Intel C8080A chip brings $565 on EBAY