Unearthed E.T. Atari Game Cartridges Score $108K At Auction

MojoKid writes: Hundreds of Atari 2600 cartridges of E.T. The Extra Terrestrial that were excavated last year from a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico collectively raked in nearly $108,000 through eBay auctions. Some $65,000 of that will go to the city of Alamogordo, while the Tularosa Basin Historical Society will receive over $16,000. Over $26,600 went to shipping fees and other expenses. A team of excavators led by operational consultant Joe Lewandowski unearthed the E.T. cartridges in front of a film crew. The high profile (among gaming historians) dig was the basis a documentary called Atari: Game Over, which is available for free through the Microsoft Store.

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As a former financial analyst I could probably name 100 innovations in Excel alone.

Then we could see how many of those 100 innovations actually existed in earlier products from competitors, except I'm not going to do that much research. Spreadsheets are not exactly new technology.

Don't feed the idiot trolls. Microsoft = Bad is all they know.

I'm running Windows 7 right now. But there's nothing innovative about it. I'm not running it because it was full of fresh ideas. I'm running it because that's where the software I want to run can be successfully executed.

I'm slowly getting the idea that most of you don't have very broad OS experience, and that's why you're so amazed by Microsoft. I used to think that everyone on Slashdot was smart. That was a long time ago, but I still have this tendency to assume that people here are knowledgeable. Problem is, they aren't, especially the Microsoft-lovers who have absolutely minuscule memories. Microsoft has done far more to harm the industry than to help it, but if you only remember the shiny shiny and the PR and what corporations say about themselves, you might forget that Microsoft was proven in court to have abused its monopoly position and to have engaged in all manner of other anticompetitive activity. They got where they are not through technical competence, but through skullduggery. It would really help if people would avoid forgetting that.