History for Sale
*Sigh* I had been sitting on this link to the Christie’s auction of the Origins of Cyberspace collection for a week, not getting around to posting it, but I guess it’s old news now. The collection is amazing, and I actually hope that a group will be able to purchase the whole thing to keep it together (and presumably display it). If not, one starts asking how much they would pay for a copy of the original notes from Godel’s lecture “On undecidable propositions of formal mathematical systems”. Estimated at $2000! Or pick up a 1920’s IBM manual for only … Continue reading History for Sale