Early last year I saw a mislabeled Altair 8800 go for a
"Buy-it-now" price of under $200. I missed that auction by
less than 5 minutes. That same day another 8800 went for
$950 (again, Buy-it-now) which was still about half price at
the time.
Erik
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 08:27:09 -0700 (PDT)
Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Jim Battle wrote:
>
> > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2034993396
> >
> > Unfortunately, I logged on about 20 minutes too late.
> It is a 1960's wang
> > programmable calculator with a printer, card reader,
> and an external core
> > memory expansion module. The exact model isn't listed.
> Supposedly all in
> > working order. The winning price: a low, low
> buy-it-now of $25.99.
>
> Doh! That's probably the best deal I've ever seen on
> eBay. Oh well, who
> has time to go scanning through all the auctions? (hint:
> not me ;)
>
> Sellam Ismail
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Received on Thu Jun 27 2002 - 10:46:57 BST