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The History of Computing Auctioned at Christie's
Larry Groebe writes "The most amazing unified collection of books, papers, and similar material on the history of computing is about to go on sale at Christie's auction house. Want a signed copy of 'Rossum's Universal Robots?' Original papers on the Eniac? Alan Turning's original proof of universal computability? Letters from Charles Babbage himself? It's in there, to anyone with (a whole lot of) money. Check out the estimated price on the 1974 journal article by Vinton Cerf describing IP addressing. It's increased in value in the past 30 years...just a bit."
If I were Bill Gates I'd shell out some money for that stuff.
Imagine it.
In this corner, hailing from the great state of Washington, weighing in at 160 lbs, the richest human being to ever walk the face of the planet, the man who could buy and sell my ass with his couch change, "Dollar" Bill Gates!
And in this corner, the dark horse challenger hailing from parts unknown, weighing in at a whopping 13 stone, sporting a dapper "Villain on a traintrack with a rope and damsel" beard, "BulletProof (TM)" Larry Ellison.
Of course, Bill bought the judges after the damn promoters ruined the sport....
Further more Susan, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to learn that all four of them habitually smoked marijuana cig