1994 Ornament Item # 530468 1994 Ornament - Sugar Town House Precious Moments Sugar Town Item # 530468 This beautiful collectible from Precious Moments makes a memorable collectible gift or a great addition to your own Precious Moments collection. More info...

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Minnesota coin dealer loses $4M in hotel heist (Pioneer Press, MN)
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What Makes This Coke Tray So Valuable?
This lithographed tin Coke tray sold at auction for $12,075 just last month. What makes it worth so much? Take a look at the description of this tray in...

January 22: George Washington portrait in private hand sold $21.3 at C
The only portrait in private hands painted by Paele between 1779 and 1781 reached more than double expected: $10 million and was purchased by art dealer Prickett, C.L. The portrait is part of a collection of an eight full-length portraits. January 22 2006 04:15 GMT

December 19, 1974 The first personal computer, Altair 8800, went on sa
1974 - The first personal computer, Altair 8800, went on sale.The MITS Altair 8800 is a microcomputer design from 1975, based on the Intel 8080A CPU. Sold as a kit through Popular Electronics magazine, the designers intended to sell only a few hundred to hobbyists, and were surprised when they sold over ten times that many in the first month. Today the Altair is widely recognized as the spark that led to the personal computer revolution of the next few years: The computer bus designed for the Altair was to become a de facto standard in form of the S-100 bus, and the first programming language for the machine was Microsoft's founding product, Altair BASIC.Dec 19 2004 14:40 GMT

 

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