I was surprised it went for that much. I was hoping to pick it up for the Museum since Portland is a three-hour drive from here (and my wife's family lives down that way). I'd rather have one of the discrete-based precursors and would be more likely to pay nearly $2K for that, but with the 'no shipping' mandate I thought it would be more sensibly priced. There's the eBay feeding frenzy for you.... --Ian ________________________________________ From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of David Riley [fraveydank at gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2011 3:46 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: who won the lisp machine? On Nov 6, 2011, at 4:01 PM, David Griffith wrote: I don't know, but I was surprised to see that it was state of the art in the mid-980s. Seems a little advanced for pre-Renaissance computing. - Dave

On Mon, 7 Nov 2011, Richard wrote: The only thing I sold as "local pickup only" was a bunch of office cubicle walls that weighed around a ton or two. -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?