>I've always wondered who buys old Pentium 3s for thousands of dollars on eBay People trying to build their vintage dream machine mostly I suppose. Folks like

>I've always wondered who buys old Pentium 3s for thousands of dollars on eBay People trying to build their vintage dream machine mostly I suppose. Folks like LGR on YouTube [0] to some degree will pay more than one would expect for a specific piece of hardware and people building private collections in general. That Nintendo-Playstation prototype unit is currently going for 300,000 USD [1] right now at auction (and I believe Palmer Luckey is still the high bidder, he was a couple weeks ago per his Twitter). I've paid an obscene (to me based on my income) amount for vintage tech before, as well as other things that I collect ( for example 3x spot price for an ugly silver art bar that most people would only pay spot for because that specific variety of art bar has significance to us old time members of /r/silverbugs and I wanted a second one). I mean, remember when Bezos spent more money than most people make in their lifetime to salvage an F1 engine from Apoloo 11 from the ocean floor? [3] [0] https://www.youtube.com/user/phreakindee/about https://www.youtube.com/user/phreakindee/about [1] https://comics.ha.com/itm/video-games/nintendo/nintendo-play-station-super-nes-cd-rom-prototype-sony-and-nintendo-c-1992/a/7224-93060.s?ic4=GalleryView-ShortDescription-071515 https://comics.ha.com/itm/video-games/nintendo/nintendo-play... [3] https://www.space.com/37830-jeff-bezos-apollo-rocket-engines-recovery.html https://www.space.com/37830-jeff-bezos-apollo-rocket-engines...