PC100A sold at auction

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From: martin
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 1990 16:45

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Some of you might be interested how much people are still willing to
pay for old Rainbows.  On Saturday, a PC100A (128K, no hard drive),
keyboard, b&w monitor, LA50 printer, and 1200 baud modem were sold for 
$1,000 at an auction at a recently closed Ford dealership.  Included was
a system kit and MS-DOS 2.05, but absolutely nothing else.  Having seen
the PC100A sold everywhere for practically nothing, I was totally surprised
that someone would pay so much.  Judging from the comments I heard before
the auction, I think whoever bought it probably expected this machine
to be IBM compatable.  Are they ever in for a surprise !

-- Bill Martin --
Cornell University

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