Some very old, expensive, and interesting computer items on ebay.

Apple 1 original $75K

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C4040 ES INTEL CPU RARE $800K

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Funny that all the other C4040 engineering samples are in white packages, not brown, and do not have a 1975 date code. How would an Intel sample get to China to begin with?

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doesn't look much like this one does it?

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here is another nice little collection of pictures:

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just found a whole bunch of them which may throw a different light on the subject.

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**This is very interesting. I have a 256k printer buffer I purchased from you a few years back, that may be worth a fortune one day.

Yay!

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I am having a hard time convincing my wife that we need to be patient and wait, until my garage-full-of-junk becomes Alibaba's treasure cave.

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**Those words probably apply to 90% of the people who read these groups. My collection of 1,200 baud modems, 386 laptops, 256k RAm chips, 28 year old CD players, Sony Beta machines, 20MB hard drives and valves are surely going to be worth something. Actually, some of my crap is (finally) starting to become valuable (I have a nice assortment of quite valuable vaccuum tubes). SWMBO calls it "junk". She knows nothing.
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That's all part of the balance of nature. In order for my baseball card collection to become valuable, everybody else's mom had to throw theirs away while they were at summer camp.

(Do they have cricket cards in OZ?)

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**Probably. Never been a follower of sports. Played some, but never watched any. I do recall collecting cards from the local gas station, when I was a kid. Atlantic Petrol. As always, there was one, quite rare card. My mum probably chucked them out, along with my Superman and Batman comics. Arrggghhh!

Lucky I've still got my Beta machines.

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Your "Chinese" is a common sidebraze used "in-house." Maybe the other packages were for engineering samples that went to outside vendors.

The free shipping makes this deal so tempting. Wait, that price isn't in rupees?

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miso

priced.

I agree. Does make me wonder what the two 4004's I gave away a couple years ago are worth

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Walter Banks

priced.

According to this article, they were worth $212-$550 each in 2005, on eBay.

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Less than 25 cents/transistor, vs less than 1.5E-5 cents/transistor on a Gulftown i7 (about 2 million times more expensive).

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Geez! Shouldn't have thrown out all that old crap years ago! I had an 8008 CPU, and probably some other vintage stuff. Hmmm, wait, I think I still HAVE an 8008 and matching EPROMS, etc. in an old prototype I made.

Jon

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I have 100 TRILLION Dollars so it's no problem for me - they want Zimbabwe dollars right?

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A working Atari 2600 sold to the Smithsonian for 10K - not a fortune but...

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Until very recently (only the last 10 years or so) it wasn't done. Some people had signature books, the occasional signed bat or actual signed photos but that was all. Now it is being marketed as a big thing - like POKEMON (i.e. mostly worthless).

BTW, somewhat recently a bat signed by Don Bradman and the entire 1948 "Invincibles" (Australia's greatest and most famous player and team) went up for auction - until then it was held in such high regard that it laid forgotten in a shed and the owner's kids used it for backyard cricket!

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Kids don't appreciate the value of collectables -- when my brother was a teenager he once used part of my dad's coin collection to pay for a pizza he ordered -- at face value of course.

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**Oops. Kinda like my grandmother. She took a considerable number (around 30 - 40, as I recall) of mint condition Australian Sovereigns down to the bank, where they dutifully gave her face value (1 Pound = 2 Dollars each) for the coins. Back when she did it (my old man hit the roof) the collector value would have exceeded $100.00 each. YIKES!
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I'd rather have one of these:

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I stumbled across this when pricing a couple of my old HP calculators. I appear to be up over $100 on the original price of my HP 16C.

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priced.

Confucius say Many valuable things for sale on ebay with teeny tiny turnover.

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