"David Pienknagura recently paid $350 for an Intel microprocessor, and he's not even sure if it works. Whether he got a bargain depends on your perspective. He bought the computer chip -- the Intel 4004, the first microprocessor the company debuted in 1971 -- on eBay from another collector," reports the Mercury News.
"One of his comrade collectors is Gennadiy Shvets, a 40-year-old programmer in Fairfax, Va. He runs a vintage chip collector's Web site, www.cpu-world.com. Shvets said he gets several thousand visitors a day to his Web site, and they're interested in all sorts of chips, not just the original one from Intel."
