In Massachusetts sind in einem einsturzgefährdeten Gebäude nicht weniger als 2.200 originalverpackte Computer der Marke NABU aufgetaucht. Die Geräte mit dem Namen Z80 stammen aus dem Jahr 1983 und sind mittlerweile für 119,99 Dollar bei eBay zu haben. Erst wurden sie für 59,99 Dollar angeboten, aber die Nachfrage war offenbar so groß, das der Anbieter den Preis mal eben verdoppelt hat. Lesenswerte Story zu der Zeitkapsel.
Hier der NABU PC in Aktion.
For more than two decades, the biggest retro computing story in recent memory sat like a sleeper cell in a Massachusetts barn. The barn was in danger of collapse. It could no longer protect the fleet of identical devices hiding inside.
A story like this doesn’t need the flash of a keynote or a high-profile marketing campaign. It really just needs someone to notice.
And the reason anyone did notice was because this barn could no longer support the roughly 2,200 machines that hid on its second floor. These computers, with a weight equivalent to roughly 11 full-size vehicles, were basically new, other than the fact that they had sat unopened and unused for nearly four decades, roughly half that time inside this barn. Every box was “new old stock,” essentially a manufactured time capsule, waiting to be found by somebody.
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