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The Mystery of 2,000 ‘80s PCs Showing Up on eBay

The NABU PC came with both a main unit plus a keyboard. It required a separate adapter box to actually connect to the NABU network.
The NABU PC came with both a main unit plus a keyboard. It required a separate adapter box to actually connect to the NABU network. Photo: Pellmill-llc

Looking for a good mystery that doesn’t involve murder or other atrocious crimes? For some reason, thousands of NABU (Natural Access to Bi-directional Utilities) computers have become available through eBay, which could be a fun collector’s item for PC fans as the NABU was actually one of the first computers to stream everything from the cloud: games, software, even its own operating system. It was unfortunately too ahead of its time, which is why you can now buy one for just a few hundred bucks.