Christie's auction

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 shoppa_classiccmp at trailing-edge.com wrote:

> Some of the items are unique objects and artifacts, I can see these
> maybe getting the expected $.  But many/most of the items are just

Even some of the more unique stuff is not that special, or at least not
worth tens of thousands of dollars.

I just got back from the preview.  They only had a couple dozen pieces out
for display.  I wasn't impressed.  If they drop a zero or two off the
estimated values of this stuff then I think they have a chance of actually
selling it.  As it is, it seems more like an ego display.

Norman will be speaking tonight at Stanford but I won't be attending.
Instead, I'll be hanging out with the PDP-1 Restoration Team at the
Computer History Museum where real history is being explored: I think
tonight may be the night where they get Spacewar! running ;)

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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