One of my eBay alerts finally pinged! A Boing Boing reader will surely become the lucky owner of these splendid IBM lab coveralls, dated to the late 1980s or thereabouts, which have a buy-it-now price of $170 and ship out of California.
Vintage IBM lab coveralls on eBay
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Original 1985 Air Jordans worn in a game by Michael Jordan and signed, up for auction
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