Amazed by prices

[Brian Lanning]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
>> ebay:   320349058642

> The auction is for a very clean monochrome original 5150 PC with every bit
> of verison 1 software.
>
> My bets are it will go for well over the $1200 start.


I agree.  He's also saying on the auction page that one like it went
for about $4000 earlier this month.


> FWIW, we were surprised to discover that no one at CHM had never bothered
> to aquire a 5170 (PC-AT) or RT/PC.
>
> Now, I'm trying to find clean original IBM 5 1/4" inch half-height drives
> for the 5170 we got, and the correct vintage keyboard.

I'd like to have a 5150 with the matching expansion chassis (5151?)
and a 5170 also.  I've also thought about picking up an original case
with dead electronics so I can hack a modern PC into one of those two
cases.  Have to find a way to keep that giant red power switch.
Should go nicely with the model M I'm typing on now.  :-)

Man I really hated that high persistence green monochrome monitor when
I had it, longing for the IBM CGA monitor instead or at least a
hercules graphics card.  Now I'd love to have one again.  Part of me
also regretted opting for a 5150 instead of an apple iie like all my
friends had.  Maybe now I can end up with both (but not at $4000,
lol).

brian