Comments on: I'm sorry, Dave, you have been outbid by another user.

I'm sorry, Dave, you have been outbid by another user.

Eothele — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:17:36 -0800

It is with great regret that we place our PC Collection up for purchase. We being The Freeman PC Museum, not to be confused with any of these. Move over, leicester codex?

By: clevershark

clevershark — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:25:20 -0800

About the only things missing are an Amiga and an Apple I (with the wood case).

By: Malor

Malor — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:32:02 -0800

They have two Amigas, an A500 and an A1000 (those are quite rare now).

By: jam_pony

jam_pony — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:47:06 -0800

Apart from the historical interest of items like these, in years to come we're going to need old hardware to retrieve data from old media. CDs, DVDs, 3.5 inch floppies, 5.25 floppies, and on back.

By: drezdn

drezdn — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:13:59 -0800

The shipping on that is going to be a bitch.

By: QuietDesperation

QuietDesperation — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:21:33 -0800

Love this. My first computer is here. It had a great voice synthesizer program .. took Microsoft years to ~~buy something equivalent~~ produce something as good.

By: CynicalKnight

CynicalKnight — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:22:46 -0800

Hey, hey, 16k.

By: mrbill

mrbill — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:57:59 -0800

A500s and A1000s are rare? I can have one (or more) of each on my doorstep in less than a week with a phone call or email. There's still quite a lot of them out and about.

By: aacheson

aacheson — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:59:18 -0800

I like this one.... 15K expandable RAM for the bargain price of $2760 (in 1973 dollars!)

By: Menomena

Menomena — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:15:03 -0800

i wonder how much this stuff will be worth in say, 80 years.

By: cavalier

cavalier — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:12:27 -0800

Agreed, 1 A1000 and A2000 within easy reach me. God if they had been successful. Never loved a machine more than those.

By: cavalier

cavalier — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:12:44 -0800

reach to me. I see your live preview and raise you a I don't seem to notice mistakes!!

By: FormlessOne

FormlessOne — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:30:52 -0800

I miss my Commodore Plus/4.

By: PROD_TPSL

PROD_TPSL — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:25:54 -0800

It's hard to believe that we, as humans, can form such strong bonds with, of all things.... digital computers. I'm one of them... I long for my Commodore 64, it's 1541 5 1/4" Floppy Disk Drive, and a 300 Buad coupler MODEM. My computer infatuation started in 1983 when I was four.... and now... here I sit in a darkened datacenter, manning the mid-shift on a Friday night, a 21st century mainframe console magician... dumping data to tape, syncing databases, and coding in arcanum. That said, I do so hope that someone purchases and preserves this entire collection of computers. "...till they prey the keyboard from my cold, dead hands."

By: CynicalKnight

CynicalKnight — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:25:46 -0800

i wonder how much this stuff will be worth in say, 80 years Well, 100 year old treadle sewing machines, such as this Singer, are usually worth next to nothing despite their beautiful shape, intricate metal works and elaborate painted designs. Antique shops often remove and discard the machine, then sell the wooden cabinet.