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February 4, 2005 (IDG News Service) --
For those who want to own a bit of computer and Internet history, venerable auction house Christie's International PLC is putting on the block a collection of documents that follow the evolution of computing from the 1600s to the 1970s.
The sale of "The Origins of Cyberspace: A Library on the History of Computing, Networking & Telecommunications" is slated for Feb. 23 in New York. The collection consists of 255 lots, containing 1,141 items, and is expected to sell for over $2 million, the auction house said.
Items include the original Arpanet documents written by Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn (Lot 82, with an estimated value of $2,000 to $3,000) and the deposition of Alexander Graham Bell in the suit brought by the U.S. to annul the Bell patents (Lot 61, with an estimated value of $1,000 to $1,500).
Owner Jeremy Norman is selling his collection of computing books, documents and even children's games, which he began collecting in 1971. Also on sale are documents on the first general-purpose programmable computer, on the first stored-program electronic computers, on the founding of the world's first electronic computer company and on the earliest programs written for electronic computers. Additionally, Norman is parting with his life's work, "The Origins of Cyberspace Library."
On the low end of the scale, an estimated $400 to $600 is expected for the original copies of two papers delivered by J.C.R. Licklider, whose work initiated the sequence of events leading to Arpanet, at the 1963 NATO symposium's session on "Man-computer communication" (Lot 144).
At the high end, an estimated $50,000 to $70,000 will buy the business plan for the world's first computer company, written by J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly (Lot 238).
For fans of Charles Babbage, considered by some to be the father of computing for his contributions to the basic design of the computer through his Analytical Machine, there is plenty on offer. A great deal of the collection consists of work from Baggage, including an open letter to Sir Humphry Davy dated July 3, 1822, on the application of machinery to the purpose of calculating and printing mathematical tables. The letter is valued at between $10,000 to $15,000.
The collection will have viewings at MIT's Burndy Library in Cambridge, Mass., on Feb. 9 -10; Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., on Feb. 14-15; and at Christie's in New York on Feb. 19-22.
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