Scheduled to take place on Feb. 23 in New York City: an "Origins Of Cyberspace" auction at Christie's. For sale: 255 cool things that point to the history of computation.
Via William Gibson's blog, who quips, "Dang. Hurts a guy's feelings: I read through this whole [auction] (…), waiting for that essential Gollancz first of Neuromancer to pop up, but no…no…"
Image: excerpt from Howard Hathaway Aiken and Grace Murray Hopper's "A manual of operation for the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator by the staff of the Computation Laboratory."
Link to auction contents. I bet Alpha-60 is in here somewhere!
Update: Apparently, this story is, like, so two months ago. Link to Wired Magazine item. From (cough) December '04. (Thanks, Adam Rogers).
Here's more on the auction, from the current owner of its contents. Link. In the weeks leading up to the auction, there will be public events in Cambridge, MA, and at Stanford University in California, at which portions of the collection will be displayed.
