Ernie SmithJun 28, 2023

I have waited three months to share this with y’all.

In the fall of 2022, literally thousands of computers flooded eBay, with a brand name few knew, at a rock-bottom price of $59.99 plus shipping. A YouTuber did a video about them and the machines—2,200 in all—went viral.

Where did they come from? Why were there so many? I spent the last few months determining this answer. And well, it’s a story.

For @Motherboard, the story of the NABU Network: https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak3k34/2200-forgotten-vintage-computers-are-being-liberated-from-a-barn-in-massachusetts

2,200 Forgotten Vintage Computers Are Being Liberated From a Barn in Massachusetts

The NABU Network was an obscure, forgotten part of Canadian tech history—until the day the internet noticed that thousands of NABU machines were being sold on eBay at rock-bottom prices.

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@ernie @Motherboard
What a great article and story this is!

I got me one of these for my museum in Sweden and is currently getting it connected to the NABUnet and it would be interesting to find out how many countries have nodes on the network now in 2023!

I will probably get another one to have as a spare/backup as the plan is to have it as an interactive display!

Jun 28, 2023 at 5:27pmWeb