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This is easily the "oldest" computer ever sold

Nobody will buy this for the technology - the price is similar to high-end cabinet and craft items. I like the look, but not the price. Might better afford a "barn" style model made of scrap lumber, bits of farm machinery, found objects and the guts of a typewriter. "Found objects" art is quite big in contemporary art galleries. Cheaper than craftsmanship.

Rick
 
I really don't get it at all. There all the expensive looking brass work round the keyboard and cogs across the front (are they real brass or plastic copies) then its on a sewing machine table with horrid course castings. The Morse Key is modern in comparison to the rest. That style is 1950's not 1850's and it looks really tatty..

http://www.mtechnologies.com/ameco/keys.htm

seems to confirm this.... Now if it was one like this..

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Heavy-Brass-morse-key-/111145771562

that's a proper key...

Lastly why the cheap jubilee clip on the end of the fake projector. Again that should be a nice brass hose clamp...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/4-ORIGINA...MPS-NOS-VINTAGE-HOT-ROD-RAT-ROD-/390654274860

but perhaps I have turned into an old codger....
 
g4ugm said:
I really don't get it at all. There all the expensive looking brass work round the keyboard and cogs across the front (are they real brass or plastic copies) then its on a sewing machine table with horrid course castings. The Morse Key is modern in comparison to the rest. That style is 1950's not 1850's and it looks really tatty..
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Exactly. It's like, just put black finish on the metal and some wood and brass and pointless cogs in there and it's totally steampunk!

Reminds me of this...
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Curious that the website identifies this model as the "clacker" (and at a much improved price).

Not sure how slang travels, but where I come from the clacker is a bodily location unique to the female. More punk than steam punk, in that regard. But i still admire the craftsmanship of this artefact and I wish the vendor well in finding a market, if not via this forum.

Rick
 
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