Jeremy Norman, Northern Californian book dealer has the world's largest private collection of rare and one-of-a-kind manuscripts, essays, and ephemera relating to the birth of the Internet, from the earliest papers on difference engines to the first digital-computer patents. In February, Norman plans to offer the whole lot at Christie's, in its first auction of this kind of material. Scheduled to take place on Feb. 23 in New York City: an "Origins Of Cyberspace" auction at Christie's. For sale: 255 cool things that point to the history of computation.
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