Laptop used for first US presidential email finds a buyer


  • TECH
  • Friday, 18 Apr 2014

WASHINGTON: The laptop computer that Bill Clinton used in 1998 to send the first-ever US presidential e-mail has sold for US$60,667 (RM196,530.75) in an online auction, the Boston auction house that handled the transaction said Thursday. 

RR Auction did not disclose the name of the buyer of the still-functional Toshiba Satellite that Clinton borrowed to e-mail veteran astronaut John Glenn, who was orbiting Earth aboard the space shuttle Discovery. 

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