ebay deals do happen

From: Corda Albert J DLVA <CordaAJ_at_NSWC.NAVY.MIL>
Date: Thu Jun 27 11:13:20 2002

Seems like I'll have to start looking through my
ancient chip supply... I seem to remember a tube
of the ceramic 8080 cpus somewhere...

Of course, I might accidently _flood_ the market... :-)

-al-
-acorda_at_1bigred.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe [mailto:rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 7:54 AM
> To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: RE: ebay deals do happen
>
>
> At 08:35 AM 6/27/02 -0700, Sellam wrote:
>
> >
> >The reason that Altair processor card got that amount was
> not because of
> >the card itself but because of the 8080 processor on it.
> Apparently, a
> >few chip collectors creamed their pants over it because it
> was an Intel
> >C8080, harboring some manner of significance to them.
> >
> >The buyer was "prepared to go well over $1000 for that
> chip". That chip
> >is apparently listed as having a value of $1,800 on one
> collector's site.
> >
> >Gee, it's like the classic computer craze of 1999 all over again.
>
>
> Geez, I should pull the 8080 CPUs out of my Intel MDS 800s
> and hawk them. Plastic CPU would work just as well and I
> could use the money :-)
>
> Joe
>
Received on Thu Jun 27 2002 - 11:13:20 BST