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Antique Price Guides. First lets talk about how price guides come up w
There are three ways prices get into guide books: Prices are taken from auction results. Guide prices are observed at shows, stores, and within advertisements. Prices are gathered by surveying dealers. Most antiques price guides are compiled using a combination of the three methods listed above. Using a combination and averaging the results is the only way to get reliable information. http://vialin.com Daily Press. Sep 23 2004 02:14 GMT
March 07: Scandinavian antique heaven. Planning a Antique trip this su
We are a small company just me and my colleauge John Henriksen, we started 1999. Our mission is to guide Antique dealers, Interior designers and major private collectors to meet fine Scandianvian Antique dealers and guide you to there warehouses and showrooms.... http://www.vialin.com/directory/events.htm and learn more about antique buying trips.Mar 07 2005 6:41 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
January 24: A Walk Through Baku National Carpet Museum. http://vialin.
While touring Baku, you are likely to discover that many of its museums are found in buildings that were constructed for entirely different purposes. Take the former Lenin museum, for instance. As with corresponding Lenin museums in other Soviet republics, Baku version once displayed items related to Lenin life: letters, speeches, telegrams - even replicas of his clothing.Jan 24 2005 4:48 GMT
