3 Jul
1999
3 Jul
'99
10:31 a.m.
check it out...
another amazing price level
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=123282312
3 Jul
3 Jul
2:06 p.m.
New subject: E-bay stupidity! was Re: height of folly
$610!!! I'll bet Intel wishes they still had some! Who was it that said
"A fool and his money are soon parted." ?
Joe
At 03:31 PM 7/3/99 -0400, you wrote:
check it out...
another amazing price level
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=123282312
9:16 a.m.
New subject: E-bay stupidity! was Re: height of folly
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 18:06:27
Reply-to: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
From: Joe <rigdonj(a)intellistar.net>
To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers"
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Subject: E-bay stupidity! was Re: height of folly
Hi,
>
>http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=123282312
Bogus! I knew Voyager doesn't use this '4004, I think cpu is 1801
or something like that made for space applications.
Wizard
12:25 p.m.
New subject: E-bay stupidity! was Re: height of folly
On Sat, 3 Jul 1999 jpero(a)cgocable.net wrote:
Bogus! I knew Voyager doesn't use this '4004,
I think cpu is 1801
or something like that made for space applications.
So, where _did_ the story about the Voyager using a 4004 come from? I've
seen it in a variety of places, and never questioned it. As it happens, I
think that this is a fairly valuable item, though perhaps not worth $600.
Although it's not the _first_ microprocessor (as we learned a year ago),
it's definitely the first commercial one.
--Max Eskin (max82(a)surfree.com)
http://scivault.hypermart.net: Ignorance is Impotence - Knowledge is Power
2:05 p.m.
New subject: E-bay stupidity! was Re: height of folly
Joe wrote:
$610!!! I'll bet Intel wishes they still had some! Who was it that said
"A fool and his money are soon parted." ?
If prior patterns follow, we will be seeing more of the 4004 microprocessor
chips showing up now. With any luck, the first one listed pulls in a higher
than expected price, and the following ones will slowly reach reasonable
again.
Of course it could be like the Altair where the first ones sold for about
$600 or so, and the price went up from there, and then settled in to the
current $2000 - $3000 or so.
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