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"If you're a nerd (with disposable income), especially one that loves old stories about Apple, Pixar and Steve Jobs, then this eBay auction is for you.\r\n\r\nIf you want to own a piece of history, you can now bid on an ultra-rare Image computer used at Pixar, and it has a buy it now price of only $25,000.\r\n\r\nThe person who listed the auction describes this item as a &amp;quot;museum-quality historical artifact&amp;quot;, so I doubt that you can count on creating Toy Story 4 using it.  The machine was developed by the Computer Division of Lucasfilm, which was renamed Pixar after Steve Jobs purchased it in 1986.\r\n\r\nLet's have a look at what $25k gets you:\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIt's not as big as I thought it would be, but it's not as portable as this gem from IBM.\r\n\r\nNow, let's take a look under the hood:\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nI don't even know what to say about this, but I'm sure that it was very high-tech at the time.\r\n\r\nPixar Image Computer on eBay\r\n\r\nWant to learn more about Pixar's past with technology? Read this piece by our own Matthew Panzarino.\r\n\r\nh/t TUAW"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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