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Just wanted to double check: is the price 30 euros PLUS 30 euros s&H to usa (so 60 euros total?) Thanks.

So you are saying a 286 is good enough to max out a 950KBps serial port? Yeah, that sounds like a recipe for disaster. Too many failure points: wall wart to extender cable, extender cable to USB, USB cable to sort adapter cable hiding the device behind the 5150 making it hard to reach. Pass...

The XT works slower than the Atari ST? What determines/limits the speed? I am guessing CPU and port speed. Port speed is somewhat limited to what the HW supports although there are 16bit serial port cards that were advertised supporting 960KBps xfer rates. One of those paired with a 386 or 486...

Very nice. How are your read/write speeds using the serial port? Can it work at higher port speeds for buffered ports (i.e. 115K or faster)?

Excellent work there!

True and if you only pay 10k for them you can source the other stuff but at almost $1M I am not sure if I woukd be as forgiving.

Good to know. But honestly what is a 180K amongst friends? 😉

So somewhere around $880K.

As an aside there seems to have been some really cool stuff in the auction. That Cray 2 is something i would have loved to have if I had Paul Alan money. Does anyone know if it was fully functional since it was from LCM?

I am sure some people on this forum have access to that kind of cash. I don't and if I did I am not sure if I would "invest" in a Lisa (as opposed to nVidia stock or a rental property) but best of luck. Let us know if it goes to Christie's. Would love to see how the auction plays out!

So how much was the price at auction... asking for a friend....

To update everyone I ended up using Five Star Data Recovery a local specialty shop. They had the drive for about two days and extracted 99% of the data (there was one XML file they did not get which was not a big deal). I moved all the recovered files off of the HDD I had given them to my NAS so...

Thanks everyone for the replies. I actually found a local shop about 10 minutes away. The owner was very forthcoming and easy to work with with set prices. $300 if no HW failure and $900 if there was HW failure. Best of all diagnostics are free no matter if i do repairs or not. So I drove there...

I think there is a newer model out. It's not crazy expensive but definitely not a hobbyist item. At least not this hobbyist LOL

Thanks but I am not sure if getting the 3 megapixrl version vs. the 1 megapixel version of my pictures is worth the cost. 😉