altair 8800

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Sat Jul 28 09:09:19 2001

To put a reasonable price on the thing, you should look on eBay under "completed
items" and see what they've brought in the past few months. EBay prices tend to
go to the high side, but they're what folks are willing to pay, plus shipping.
There's no real reason why you shouldn't get what the eBay market brings in.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lawrence LeMay" <lemay_at_cs.umn.edu>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 11:26 PM
Subject: altair 8800


> Dumb question, but what might an Altair 8800 be worth these days?
>
> A friend is getting one from his father, who got it around the end of
> 1975. He asked me about sources for manuals and documentation, plus
> sources for boards to upgrade the system. Further questioning revealed
> that he wont get the unit until he travels back to visit the parents,
> and that the unit apparently has a 256 byte memory.
>
> This small scrap of information leads me to think this could be
> an original kit built system, with the original memory and probably
> hasnt been upgraded. If so, it could be a very dumb thing if someone
> who is clueless decided to upgrade this system, when he may actually
> have quite the collectors item in original condition on his hands...
>
> I'll pass along any information, or sources of documentation or scanned
> in manuals, that anyone can provide.
>
> -Lawrence LeMay
> lemay_at_cs.umn.edu
>
>
Received on Sat Jul 28 2001 - 09:09:19 BST