For sale: an Enigma machine

Re:For sale: an Enigma machine by Robin_Message on Friday November 12, 2010 @06:43AM (#1897345)

Also, the next lot is even more exciting: Some offprints of Turing's papers and manuscripts, formed by Prof. Maxwell Newman, guide price 300 to 500 thousand pounds! Apparently these are extremely rare; none have appeared in auction for 35 years!

http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?from=sal...

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Re:For sale: an Enigma machine by bl4k on Friday November 12, 2010 @08:58AM (#1897625)

This entire collection is eclectic and interesting. There are the Turing papers, the Enigma, ENIAC related papers, the old Apple I, some original Warhol and Matisse (for what seems like a low price), original documents from Captain Cook on his travels and a rare first edition of Adam Smith's Wealth.

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Re:For sale: an Enigma machine by KoZeN on Friday November 12, 2010 @08:44AM (#1897574)

http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?from=sal...

I'm surprised this hadn't had more attention here!

APPLE-1 -- Personal Computer. An Apple-1 motherboard, number 82, printed label to reverse, with a few slightly later additions including a 6502 microprocessor, labeled R6502P R6502-11 8145, printed circuit board with 4 rows A-D and columns 1-18, three capacitors, heatsink, cassette board connector, 8K bytes of RAM, keyboard interface, firmware in PROMS, low-profile sockets on all integrated circuits, video terminal, breadboard area with slightly later connector, with later soldering, wires and electrical tape to reverse, printed to obverse Apple Computer 1 Palo Alto. Ca. Copyright 1976

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Re:For sale: an Enigma machine by asmithmd1 on Friday November 12, 2010 @11:14AM (#1898092)

Wow! a the Apple-1 is estimated to go for £100,000 - £150,000

I wonder if there are any artifacts from todays companies that we should be grabbing up

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Re:For sale: an Enigma machine by asmithmd1 on Friday November 12, 2010 @11:29AM (#1898145)

Now I see why - it comes with the optional cassette interface and BASIC on a tape :)

Seriously it is an exceptional artifact: original invoice (Salesperson: STEVEN) and a typed note from Steven Jobs explaining how to hook-up a TV and keyboard: http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/ZoomImage.aspx?image=/lot...

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Re:For sale: an Enigma machine by KoZeN on Monday November 15, 2010 @11:06AM (#1906698)

I can imagine one of the 1st gen iphones fetching a few quid down the line.

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Re:For sale: an Enigma machine by zitterbewegung on Friday November 12, 2010 @09:40AM (#1897770)

I noticed that if you keep on looking through the lot they have watson's and crick's original paper on DNA http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?from=sal...

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Re:For sale: an Enigma machine by ghalfacree on Saturday November 13, 2010 @07:27PM (#1902073)

There's a fundraising drive trying to get together the money so Bletchley Park, the museum dedicated to the work of Turing and the other codebreakers at Station X during the war, can buy the offprints and keep them for public display. More info: http://www.justgiving.com/turing-papers/

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