13 Aug
1998
13 Aug
'98
10:44 a.m.
Geez, I'll bet our own Jim Willing is pretty disappointed that his only sold
for $4213.
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=24405966
What the heck is with that? Two Altairs auctioned simultaneously, with a 3x
price differential.
Guess I'm sitting on a fortune with my 5 Altairs, but I'd never sell them
(and I mean that, whereas Jim used to say he'd never sell his either).
Kai
-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Yowza [mailto:yowza@yowza.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 1998 12:34 PM
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject: Altair prices
$12100 for the world's flakiest S-100 box:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=24409570
(and the reserve was still not met, but I bet the guy sells, what do you
think?)
That's a 600% increase from the last batch, and even beats the last Apple
1 sale I know of. I'll bet that the bidders get solicitations for about
100 Altairs in the next few days.
-- Doug
13 Aug
13 Aug
11:04 a.m.
On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Kai Kaltenbach wrote:
Geez, I'll bet our own Jim Willing is pretty
disappointed that his only sold
for $4213.
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=24405966
What the heck is with that? Two Altairs auctioned simultaneously, with a 3x
price differential.
A couple of differences: Jim's was listed first (by just a few minutes),
so it closed first. When the billionaires lost out on Jim's to a surprise
last-minute bidder, it was desparation time to get the second and last
Altair -- a $12000 bid came at the very last minute. The other
difference is that Jim listed his in the CPU category, which to most
people means chips rather than systems, so his may have been slightly less
visible.
Guess I'm sitting on a fortune with my 5 Altairs,
but I'd never sell them
(and I mean that, whereas Jim used to say he'd never sell his either).
But you'll trade, right? I still have that Tandy VIS :-)
-- Doug
1 p.m.
At 12:44 PM 8/13/98 -0700, you wrote:
Geez, I'll bet our own Jim Willing is pretty
disappointed that his only sold
for $4213.
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=24405966
What the heck is with that? Two Altairs auctioned simultaneously, with a 3x
price differential.
Guess I'm sitting on a fortune with my 5 Altairs, but I'd never sell them
(and I mean that, whereas Jim used to say he'd never sell his either).
Kai
Ah... but you make an incorrect assumption... I still have all of my
Altairs.
(dontcha just love a good mystery?)
-jim
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2:37 p.m.
On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, James Willing wrote:
Aha! So what was your commission? ;)
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Guess I'm
sitting on a fortune with my 5 Altairs, but I'd never sell them
(and I mean that, whereas Jim used to say he'd never sell his either).
Ah... but you make an incorrect assumption... I still have all of my
Altairs.
(dontcha just love a good mystery?) 
14 Aug
14 Aug
10:51 a.m.
At 12:44 PM 8/13/98 -0700, you wrote:
Geez, I'll bet our own Jim Willing is pretty
disappointed that his only sold
for $4213.
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=24405966
What the heck is with that? Two Altairs auctioned simultaneously, with a 3x
price differential.
That's one reason that I think that that auction was a hoax.
Guess I'm sitting on a fortune with my 5 Altairs, but I'd never sell them
(and I mean that, whereas Jim used to say he'd never sell his either).
I'll bet that for $60,500 (5 x $12,100), you'd give it some serious
thought!
Joe
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