out of interest, i wonder if anyone here has, or has seen some of the following items for sale anywhere, and roughly how much they sell for: (some i expect cost a hella lot of money)

MITS Altair 8800 (cheapest i found is currently at $300 us dollars on ebay, in mint condition but USA sale only, theres another on there for over $2000 dollars though sigh... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=2029417084

IBM 5150

Commadore VIC 20

madore PET

IMSAI 8080 ($305 on ebay)

ZX81 spectrum (i may have scourced me one of these i remember making my own games on it using BASIC at the age of seven! )

I expect the girlfriend will go nuts soon, i already have 4 pc's in here in bits or needing bits, the oldest being a 486 so nothing too old.

any help much appreciated

Some old stuff available here

http://www.etedeschi.ndirect.co.uk/sale/computers.htm

send him an e-mail,he should be able to help.

ive got 3 socket 7 boards P100 or 120 i think inc memory free to a good home.

i have two lol

I have a whole P3 800Mhz comp With 40gB HD, GeForce 2, 256mb RAM, DVD and CD-RW and other stuff, it is for sale too

a bit new isnt it, compared to the altair 8800....