Auction record for any computer as Paul Allen’s Cray-1 sells at Christie’s

A Cray-1 Supercomputer owned by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen set a new high for any computer sold at auction when it took $810,000 (£618,320) at Christie’s New York.

The three-part sale of Allen’s extraordinary collection of scientific and technological items kicked…

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