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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So here's how it would go: Buyer pays $800K for chip. Buyer gets chip but doesn't dare power it (that's a whole different issue). How does the buyer know the chip is genuine? Is it worth more if it works?

Now consider powering it:

Will powering it destroy it? If buyer does power it and it tests bad, should he open it to find out if he was fleeced (risking devaluing it), just ask for his money back, or just sell it to the next sucker perpetuating the sucker train.

I just don't see how one can see buying "collectible" micros a good thing.

JJS

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John Speth

Wouldn't the 4004 be even more valuable?

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Greegor

I should hope so, but at $800K for a 4040, I figure it is about $799.9K over priced.

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So, you'd pay $100 to get one ??

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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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If it came with a certificate of authenticity.......how easy would it be to clone a 4040 these days?

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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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No, the buyer must not do anything that might reveal the item to be a fake. As long as the buyer has no grounds for such a belief, he can let the thing appreciate some more, and then sell it at a profit. The moment he knows it's a dud, his investment is lost.

Sylvia.

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Schrodinger's chip?

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krw

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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