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From: "John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com>
To: coff@tuhs.org
Subject: [COFF] Re: More LCM fallout
Date: 30 Aug 2024 18:09:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240830220904.36A4692CF4CF@ary.qy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <929aa508-4f6b-4019-8393-35f1e3f1611d@halwitz.org>

It appears that Dan Halbert <halbert@halwitz.org> said:
>Late followup in this thread: here is the Christie's auction for items 
>being auctioned off:
>https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/firsts-history-computing-paul-g-allen-collection/lots/3726

Many of the bids are underwhelming.  KA-10 for $300, KI-10 for $400, KS-10 for $400.

Somebody wants the IBM 7090, bid $11,000 but still well below the $40-$60K estimate,
and somebody really wants the CDC 6500, bid $160,000.

All plus packing and shipping from Seattle, of course.


  reply	other threads:[~2024-08-30 22:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-13 13:17 [COFF] " Noel Chiappa
2024-07-27 21:18 ` [COFF] " Chris Hanson
2024-07-28 18:04   ` Aron Insinga
2024-07-29  3:14     ` Charles Anthony
2024-07-31 22:24     ` Chris Hanson
2024-08-01  6:22       ` Lars Brinkhoff
2024-08-30 21:50         ` Dan Halbert
2024-08-30 22:09           ` John Levine [this message]
2024-09-02  2:21             ` Chris Hanson
2024-09-02  9:45               ` John R Levine
2024-09-08 17:39                 ` Grant Taylor via COFF

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