16 Oct
2000
16 Oct
'00
2:27 p.m.
Yeah, I just found this old house, apparently owned by one of Babbage's
decendents, I couldn't believe it, wall to wall ENIACS! With boxes and
boxes of replacement tubes. There is also a working difference engine but I
may sell that to a scrapper because it has a lot (and I mean a LOT) of
brass and copper in it. Besides it didn't come with a manual. Only a couple
of Enigma machines that were new in the box, one still marked with the
Luftwaffe transport seals. I'll probably break my back single handedly
loading these into a forty five foot 18 wheeler that I rented for the day.
Sheesh. I'll set a few aside for people on the list maybe.
--Chuck
At 04:40 PM 10/16/00 -0700, you wrote:
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Chuck McManis wrote:
Fascinating, if it came from MIT is was probably
part of the MIT
"Whirlwind" making it an extremely valuable artifact. Too bad you didn't
pick it up, I'm guessing it would fetch over $10K at auction.
Are you trying to create an artificial frenzy, Chuck? While I definitely
agree it is a historically valuable artifact, and this is assuming it did
come out of Whilrwind, saying it would fetch $10K at auction is kind of
irresponsible.
My guess is that you found a pallet of these at a local auction and are
just whipping up interest for an imminent eBay sale :)
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org