We benefit as frontier AI models improve, but when they fall short or become too costly, we train our own.
【局限】作者承认了对前沿AI模型的依赖及其局限性，表明当外部模型不足或成本过高时，他们会自行训练模型。这一坦诚的局限性说明，即使是最先进的AI模型也可能无法满足特定科学领域的需求，需要定制化解决方案。然而，文章未详细说明自行训练模型的成本效益分析或与使用外部模型的比较。
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periodic.com periodic.com
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总花费已超 125 万美元（IT之家注：现汇率约合 840.3 万元人民币）
【数据】这一成本数据非常具体，显示了AI研发的高昂投入。然而，这个数字是否仅包括MiMo-V2.6的训练成本，还是包含了团队其他开支？此外，与其他公司类似规模的AI项目相比，这一成本是否合理，需要进一步比较分析。
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OpenAI API Standard pricing is $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens. Fast mode is available for GPT‑6 Astra in the API and delivers up to 2x the speed of Standard processing at 2x the Standard price.
【数据】这一定价信息提供了具体的数字，但未解释成本结构或与竞争对手的比较。需要了解这些价格相对于模型性能的价值主张，以及不同使用场景下的实际成本效益，以评估这一商业模式的合理性和可持续性。
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Microsoft claims the Maia 200 gives 30% more performance per dollar than the first-gen Maia 100, an impressive feat considering the new chip also technically advertizes a 50% higher TDP than its predecessor.
大多数人认为芯片性能提升必然伴随着功耗增加和成本上升，但作者认为微软在Maia 200上实现了性能每美元提升30%的同时，功耗仅增加50%，这挑战了AI芯片领域'性能提升必然伴随能耗大幅增加'的行业共识，暗示了架构优化的巨大潜力。
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The models are finally ready. Costs of inference are getting optimized with open models, and even on-device models.
大多数人认为AI领域仍然处于早期阶段，模型成本高且实用性有限，但作者认为模型已经'准备就绪'，推理成本正在优化，这一观点暗示AI应用可能比大多数人预期的更快进入实用阶段，挑战了行业对AI成熟度的普遍认知。
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We never stack model fees; you are charged a single rate based on the top tier model involved.
大多数人认为使用多个模型的多智能体系统会叠加各个模型的费用，导致成本高昂，但作者提出了创新的定价模式，只收取最顶级模型的单一费率。这种颠覆性的定价策略挑战了传统多模型服务的商业模式。
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We now appear to be entering the era of token rationing.
大多数人认为AI技术会持续扩大应用范围，企业会越来越依赖AI。但作者认为我们正进入'配给token'的时代，这与主流认知中AI技术将无限扩张的观点相悖。这种配给制反映了企业对AI成本效益的重新评估。
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If newspaper advertising has been employed, ananalysis of these returns will show the exact advertisingcost per order, and the relative value of different adver-tising media.
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Privacy, zero cost, & complete offline capability matter.
本地编码模型的核心优势在于隐私保护、零成本和完全离线能力。对于处理敏感代码或需要稳定网络环境的开发者来说，这些优势尤为重要。在选择编码工具时，应权衡这些因素与云端模型的便利性和高级功能。
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The nuances of tuning the carburetors & the timing belts of these complex beasts are tasks better assigned to a few vendors to deliver maximum intelligence per dollar & amortize the costs across a broader population.
作者将AI系统比作复杂的机械，需要精细调整（化油器和正时皮带）。他建议将这种专业任务交给少数供应商，以实现每美元最大智能回报并分摊成本。这反映了AI应用开发的专业化和集中化趋势，对初创企业考虑是否自建AI能力有重要启示。
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Models are tricky. Budgets prevent defaulting everyone to state-of-the-art. The legion of other models each have a personality.
作者详细描述了不同AI模型的特性差异，如Kimi K2.6创意性强但精确度较低，Qwen 3.6性能好但可能中断工作流，GLM 5.1擅长编程但速度较慢。这提醒开发者需要根据具体需求选择合适的模型，而非盲目追求最新或最大的模型，同时要注意预算限制。
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His personal cost of capital made that possible.
大多数人认为马斯克的融资成功主要归因于他公司的创新技术和市场地位，但作者将其归结为'个人资本成本'这一概念。这挑战了传统商业融资理论，暗示创始人的个人品牌和声誉可能比公司基本面更重要，是一个反直觉的因果关系主张。
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Pulled the trigger today & switched 100% of Lindy traffic to DeepSeek v4, churning from Anthropic models. Saves us millions of $ & we're actually seeing an _increase_ in performance on many core use cases.
Lindy完全切换到DeepSeek v4模型，节省数百万美元，同时核心用例性能还提升了。这个案例展示了从封闭模型转向开源模型的显著经济优势，但缺乏具体的节省金额和性能提升的具体数据点。
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switched 100% of Lindy traffic to DeepSeek v4
Lindy公司完全迁移其流量到DeepSeek v4模型，这代表了100%的采用率。这种全面迁移表明企业对开源模型的高度信心，尤其是在性能提升的同时还能节省数百万美元。然而，文章未提供迁移前的具体成本和使用量，难以评估实际节省的幅度和迁移的复杂度。
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$84 vs $954 across the same 100 tasks, or ~11x cheaper.
成本对比数据显示Kimi 2.6模型比Opus模型便宜约11倍，完成相同100个任务的成本从954美元降至84美元。这一显著的成本差异(约870美元)是AI经济性的关键指标。11倍的成本优势表明开源模型在成本效益方面具有巨大潜力，可能加速AI技术的普及。
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Even though per-token prices have fallen, the push for more AI adoption and increasingly autonomous agents have driven token consumption higher and higher.
大多数人认为AI成本下降会使AI应用更经济实惠，但作者认为尽管单位token价格下降，但AI使用量激增导致总成本反而上升。这与大多数人对AI成本下降的预期相悖，揭示了行业面临的成本悖论。
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the total cost was under $20,000 and found several dozen more findings. While the specific run that found the bug above cost under $50, that number only makes sense with full hindsight. Like any search process, we can't know in advance which run will succeed.
2万美元找到「几十个」高严重性漏洞（包括一个27年历史的OpenBSD内核崩溃漏洞）——这个成本效益比彻底颠覆了传统安全审计的经济学。顶级渗透测试公司的日费率通常在数千到数万美元之间，且不保证结果。Mythos将漏洞发现的边际成本压缩到了每个漏洞数百美元级别，这意味着大规模、持续性的自动化漏洞狩猎在经济上已经完全可行。
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At a time when many companies are blowing through their AI budgets, those token cost savings have become a major selling point for the company.
AI budget anxiety is becoming a real enterprise procurement signal — and Glean is one of the first companies to explicitly sell against it. This suggests the AI adoption cycle is entering a cost-optimization phase: the early 'try everything' enthusiasm is giving way to CFO scrutiny of LLM spend, which favors solutions that promise efficiency over raw capability.
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CXL solves this by introducing a shared memory pool that expands capacity beyond GPU memory, enabling KV reuse across workers. With CXL's load/store semantics, KV data can be accessed with zero-copy, reducing recomputation, stabilizing latency, and significantly lowering cost per token.
Zero-copy access via CXL's load/store semantics is the key architectural advantage over existing solutions like CPU offloading or NVMe storage, which require serialization and DMA transfers. This makes CXL memory behave like extended GPU memory rather than a slower storage tier, preserving latency-sensitive inference performance.
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Even the most valuable companies in the world cannot afford state-of-the-art intelligence for every conceivable use case.
大多数人认为顶级科技公司有无限资源可以采用最先进的AI技术，但作者认为即使是全球最有价值的企业也负担不起所有场景的最先进AI，因为成本效益比已经变得不可持续。这挑战了'大公司可以无限制采用新技术'的常识认知。
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Uber capped employee AI spending after blowing through its budget in four months.
大多数人认为大型科技公司有充足的财务缓冲来支持AI采用，但作者认为即使是像Uber这样的大公司也难以承受AI成本，导致预算迅速耗尽。这挑战了'大公司有无限AI预算'的普遍认知，揭示了AI成本问题的普遍性。
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Benchmarks are now measured on two different dimensions, the overall performance & the cost to achieve that intelligence.
大多数人认为AI评估主要关注性能指标，但作者认为评估标准已经转变为双重维度：性能和成本。这挑战了AI行业长期以来只关注性能的评估传统，暗示成本效率将成为与性能同等重要的评估标准。
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Even the most valuable companies in the world cannot afford state-of-the-art intelligence for every conceivable use case.
大多数人认为顶级科技公司有无限资源可以采用最先进的AI技术，但作者认为即使是全球最有价值的企业也负担不起在最广泛场景中使用最先进AI，因为AI成本已经变得不可持续。这挑战了'大公司可以无限制采用新技术'的常规认知。
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Even the most valuable companies in the world cannot afford state-of-the-art intelligence for every conceivable use case.
大多数人认为顶级科技公司可以无限负担最先进的AI技术，但作者认为即使是全球最有价值的企业也无法负担所有场景下的尖端AI，因为实际使用成本远超预期。这挑战了'大公司有无限资源'的普遍认知，揭示了AI经济性的现实约束。
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Running every query through Opus 4.7 is the fastest path to negative gross margins. The best Rest of Oz companies route across tiers of models — frontier models for the hardest tasks, mid-tier for the bulk, smaller custom or fine-tuned models where they've earned the right to use them.
大多数人认为使用最先进的大模型总是最佳选择，能提供最佳结果。但作者认为这是通往负毛利的最快路径。相反，'Oz的其他部分'公司会根据任务难度分层使用不同级别的模型，只为最困难的任务使用前沿模型，为批量任务使用中等模型，为特定工作使用小型定制或微调模型。这种成本优化策略使它们能够提供更具竞争力的价格。
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In long sessions the bill typically lands at ~1/3 of comparable generic tooling.
这个数据点声称长期使用时成本通常相当于同类通用工具的1/3左右。这是一个相当大的成本节约声明，但文章没有提供与哪些具体工具进行比较，也没有说明比较的条件和度量标准。1/3的成本节约需要更详细的基准测试和对比数据来支持。
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这个价格数据点显示未缓存的令牌成本为每百万0.07美元，缓存的令牌成本为每百万0.014美元，即缓存后成本降低为原来的20%。这是一个具体的价格点，但没有说明这是官方定价还是基于特定使用场景的计算。与其他AI服务提供商相比，这个价格处于中等水平，但需要考虑实际使用中的额外成本。
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of the roughly $30 billion year-over-year increase, around $20 billion came from HBM alone.
在300亿美元的同比增长中，约200亿美元来自HBM内存。这表明内存成本是推动总支出增长的主要因素，占比约67%，凸显了HBM在AI芯片成本结构中的主导地位。
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Total spending on components across the top four designers more than doubled from 2024 to 2025, rising from $22 billion to $52 billion.
组件支出从2024年的220亿美元增长到2025年的520亿美元，增幅超过100%。这一显著增长反映了AI芯片供应链成本的急剧上升，以及行业对关键组件投入的大幅增加。
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The Scientist AI is going to be trained using essentially the same machine learning techniques: stochastic gradient descent on large neural nets, transformers, whatever works best. It doesn't care about what is the architecture of the neural net. So all of the effort that is currently being done to improve, for example, memory and other properties and continual learning, can just be applied directly to the Scientist AI.
Bengio解释Scientist AI将使用与现有模型相同的基础技术，这意味着实现成本不会显著增加，打破了安全与能力必须取舍的常见假设，为安全AI提供了实用路径。
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Imitation learning (Supervised Fine-Tuning) was ruled out because generating multi-turn labels is prohibitively expensive.
作者否定了模仿学习作为协调者训练方法的可行性，这与许多AI研究中偏好监督学习的常规做法相悖，提出了一个反直觉的观点。
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An engineer at Cloudflare used Claude with OpenCode to release vinext, a reimplementation of Next.js on Vite, for only ~$1,100 in API costs.
这个案例展示了AI系统在软件开发中的成本效益，仅用1100美元API成本就实现了94%的Next.js API覆盖，这是一个相对较低的成本。这表明在某些特定任务上，AI系统已经能够以相对较低的成本实现有意义的成果。
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Nicholas Carlini at Anthropic tasked Claude with building a C compiler from scratch, spending roughly $20K in API costs.
这个案例展示了AI系统在专业领域的应用能力，20万美元的API成本反映了高质量AI评估的显著经济成本。99%的GCC torture test通过率是一个令人印象深刻的指标，表明AI系统在特定领域可以达到接近人类专家的水平。
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AI Village gives multiple AI agents their own computer environments and a shared group chat, then tasks them with open-ended real-world goals like fundraising, organizing events, making games, and gaining subscribers.
这个案例展示了开放世界评估的实际应用，每年约5万美元的成本表明这种评估需要相当大的资源投入。相比传统基准测试，这种评估方式更接近真实应用场景，但也因此成本更高，难以大规模实施。
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The benchmark tasks were meticulously constructed to be realistic, involving the hard work of hundreds of experts and likely millions of dollars — placing it among the most expensive economics papers of all time.
作者提到GDPval基准测试可能花费了数百万美元，由数百名专家参与构建。这一数据点显示了AI基准测试的高昂成本，但也暗示了这类测试可能存在资源分配不均的问题。考虑到其成本与实际经济影响之间的差距，这种高投入低产出的现象值得反思。
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$200,000 per year in wasted standup meetings
【令人震惊的数字】每年 20 万美元浪费在无效的 Standup 会议上——这是对一个「中等规模工程团队」的估算。更深层的问题是：这笔钱不只是时间成本，而是「将工程师锁在低价值同步活动中」的机会成本。AI 编程时代，工程师最稀缺的资源是「深度思考时间」，而 Scrum 的会议文化恰好是这种时间的最大消耗者。
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Across leading AI companies where breakdowns are available, the chips and computing time to run them account for 54% to 62% of total spending
AI硬件成本占AI公司总支出的一半以上(54%-62%)，这凸显了计算资源在AI开发中的核心地位。如此高的比例表明，AI公司的竞争很大程度上转化为对计算资源的获取和利用能力的竞争。这也解释了为什么各大公司愿意为芯片支付高价并积极投资自研芯片。
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When our engineers no longer spend time supervising Codex sessions, the economics of code changes completely. The perceived cost of each change drops because we're no longer investing human effort in driving the implementation itself.
大多数人认为AI编程会增加监督成本，但作者认为通过Symphony系统，人类监督成本实际上大幅下降，因为AI能够自主完成大部分实现工作。这个观点挑战了人们对AI编程成本结构的普遍认知，暗示正确的AI编排可能根本性地改变软件开发的经济模型。
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IT budgets are getting blown out as some companies increasingly spend more on AI than on employees' salaries.
这个陈述提出了一个令人震惊的数据，即一些公司在人工智能上的支出超过了员工工资，需要核查这些公司的具体支出情况。
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Resolution increases make them more expensive, then efficiency gains reduce costs - a sawtooth pattern.
大多数人可能认为AI成本会呈现单调下降或上升的趋势，但作者提出'锯齿状'模式，即精度提升导致成本上升，然后效率提升又降低成本。这种波动性挑战了人们对技术成本发展的常规预期。
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a lightweight surrogate trained on them can absorb a significant portion of future traffic at near-zero marginal inference cost
大多数人认为模型替换会带来明显的质量下降或需要持续监督。但作者提出轻量级代理模型可以'吸收大量未来流量'且'边际推理成本接近零'，这种近乎零成本的替代方式颠覆了传统模型替换的质量-成本权衡观念。
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This is the part people miss about AI-native companies - the $113k is not a cost, it is your headcount budget allocated differently.
大多数人认为AI成本是额外的支出，但作者认为AI成本实际上是对人力预算的重新分配。这挑战了传统成本会计观念，暗示AI不是成本而是投资，但也可能低估了AI实际成本和维护的复杂性。
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The extra tokens bought something measurable. +5pp on strict instruction-following. Small. Real. So: is that worth 1.3–1.45x more tokens per prompt?
这是一个令人惊讶的价值权衡案例。Anthropic用高达45%的token成本增加，只换来了5个百分点的指令遵循提升。这种不成比例的交换表明，在AI模型优化中，'微小但真实'的改进可能需要付出巨大成本，这挑战了人们对技术改进应该'物有所值'的普遍假设。
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Unified interface for interacting with different LLM providers (Claude, OpenAI, local models via vLLM/Ollama). Includes tool definitions for security operations (shell, file I/O, network, debugger) and cost/token tracking.
模型抽象层的统一接口设计体现了对多模型支持的战略考虑，同时整合了安全操作工具。这种设计使平台能够灵活适应不同模型，同时保持安全操作的一致性。成本和token追踪功能反映了AI使用中的经济考量，这在企业级应用中至关重要。
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Because small, cheap, fast models are sufficient for much of the detection work, you don't need to judiciously deploy one expensive model and hope it looks in the right places. You can deploy cheap models broadly, scanning everything, and compensate for lower per-token intelligence with sheer coverage and lower cost-per-token.
这一观点提出了AI安全的经济新模式，通过广泛部署小型廉价模型来弥补单一大模型的不足。这种'广撒网'策略可能比依赖少数昂贵模型更有效，尤其在大规模代码库扫描场景中，为AI安全的经济可行性提供了新思路。
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Eight out of eight models detected Mythos's flagship FreeBSD exploit, including one with only 3.6 billion active parameters costing $0.11 per million tokens.
这是一个令人惊讶的发现，表明即使是小型、廉价的模型也能实现与昂贵的专有模型相当的安全漏洞检测能力。这挑战了AI安全领域需要最前沿模型的假设，暗示了经济高效的AI安全解决方案的可能性。
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www.tomtunguz.com www.tomtunguz.com
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As the cost of software development falls, trusted partners with broad adoption can expand faster than anyone else.
在开发成本下降的背景下，广泛采用和信任成为扩张的关键因素，这暗示AI时代的赢家可能不是技术最先进的，而是能够最快建立信任生态系统的公司。
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mp.weixin.qq.com mp.weixin.qq.com
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未来的评估体系，必须同时考虑：成功率、成本、延迟。这有点类似于对于云计算的考核标准，而不是传统软件。
这一观点揭示了AI技能评估需要引入新的维度，特别是成本因素，这反映了AI时代的独特挑战，也暗示未来技能市场可能会出现基于资源消耗的定价机制，这与传统软件市场有本质区别。
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Performance: dev-browser: 3m53s, $0.88, 100% success rate — beats MCP configs, Chrome extensions, 'browser skill' stacks.
令人惊讶的是：这种新技术不仅在功能上超越传统方法，在性能指标上也取得了显著优势，100%的成功率和相对较低的成本显示了其技术成熟度和实用性，这可能会使现有的浏览器自动化解决方案迅速过时。
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that's what anthropic says it cost Mythos to find those zero days. per repo.
令人惊讶的是：Anthropic声称每次代码库扫描要花费2万美元来发现零日漏洞，这个价格远高于人们对于代码安全审计成本的预期，揭示了AI安全分析的高昂门槛。
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www.wired.com www.wired.com
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It defines a frontier model as any AI model trained using more than $100 million in computational costs, which likely could apply to America's largest AI labs, like OpenAI, Google, xAI, Anthropic, and Meta.
令人惊讶的是：训练一个前沿AI模型的成本竟然高达1亿美元以上，这凸显了AI研发的惊人投入门槛。只有少数科技巨头能够负担如此高昂的计算成本，这可能正在重塑AI行业的竞争格局，形成新的技术垄断。
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blog.skypilot.co blog.skypilot.co
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Total cost: ~$29 ($20 in CPU VMs, $9 in API calls) over ~3 hours with 4 VMs.
令人惊讶的是：仅花费29美元和3小时，AI代理就实现了显著的性能提升（x86上提升15.1%，ARM上提升5%）。这种低成本高效能的优化方式颠覆了传统认为高性能优化需要大量人力和时间的观念。
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Artificial Analysis has also positioned Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS within its 'most attractive quadrant' for its ideal blend of high-quality speech generation and low cost.
令人惊讶的是：这个模型不仅质量高，而且成本效益也非常出色，在'最具吸引力象限'中占据一席之地。这表明Google在平衡AI性能和商业可行性方面取得了显著突破，这对大多数用户来说是意想不到的。
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arxiv.org arxiv.org
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For the remaining cases, the full SELFDOUBT score significantly outperforms sampling-based semantic entropy at 10x lower inference cost.
令人惊讶的是：SELFDOUBT方法在处理剩余情况时，不仅显著优于基于采样的语义熵方法，而且计算成本降低了10倍。这一发现表明，通过分析模型推理过程中的自我怀疑和验证行为，可以在极低成本下实现比传统方法更准确的不确定性估计，为实际应用提供了高效解决方案。
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using Claude 3.5 Sonnet for the experimentation phase typically costs around $15–$20 per run.
一篇通过 ICLR workshop 同行评审的科学论文，AI 生成成本约为 15-20 美元。相比之下，一位博士生培养成本超过 10 万美元，发表一篇顶会论文需要数月时间。这个成本差距意味着：如果这项技术成熟，科研论文的生产成本将下降数千倍。学术期刊、同行评审系统、学术出版业的整个商业模式，都将面临根本性的重构压力。
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Cost (USD) to run the evaluation: GPT-5.4 (xhigh): $1,110, Claude Opus 4.6 (max): $1,055
运行一次 452 个任务的评测，GPT-5.4 花费 1110 美元，Claude Opus 4.6 花费 1055 美元——每个任务平均约 2.3 美元。而 Gemini 3 Flash 只需要 596 美元，实现了 27.7% 的成绩（vs 顶级模型的 33.3%）。这个性价比数据对 AI 选型决策极为关键：如果业务场景可以接受 27% 而非 33% 的成功率，Gemini 3 Flash 能节省近一半成本。在金融服务的大规模部署中，这个差异将被放大数千倍。
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poorly organized code means agents need to read, "understand", and make changes to more files than necessary - polluting their context and costing you tokens.
【启发】技术债从「慢慢损害可维护性」变成了「立刻损害你的账单」。这是一个全新的技术债量化维度——不再只能用「未来的工时」来衡量，而可以用「每次 AI 调用的 token 超支」来实时计算。这为「说服管理层重视代码质量」提供了一个全新的、财务可量化的论据：烂代码不只是技术问题，它在每次 AI 执行任务时都在直接产生额外费用。
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Humans abandon wikis because the maintenance burden grows faster than the value. LLMs don't get bored, don't forget to update a cross-reference, and can touch 15 files in one pass. The wiki stays maintained because the cost of maintenance is near zero.
【启发】这句话精准定位了 LLM 的「比较优势」所在：不是创造力，不是洞察力，而是「永不厌倦的维护」。人类知识库失败的根本原因是维护摩擦——而这恰好是 LLM 最擅长的。这对所有知识密集型组织的启发是：凡是人类会因「太繁琐而放弃」的知识维护任务，都是 LLM 的最佳应用场景。
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知识管理系统的死亡往往不是因为缺乏信息，而是维护成本的指数级增长超过了信息本身的价值。LLM的引入将边际维护成本降至接近零，从根本上逆转了这一熵增趋势，使得知识库的长久存续和演化成为可能。
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文章提醒了一个常被忽视的约束条件：AI的使用成本。在讨论AI替代人类时，人们往往默认AI是低成本方案，但推理模型和智能体的高昂算力成本意味着，仅凭能力覆盖并不等于经济上的可行替代，成本收益分析仍是决定性门槛。
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这是一个深刻的反直觉推演。微软对OpenAI的重金投入变成了一种“沉没成本绑架”。如果收购，不仅要花费巨额市值拯救一个失去差异化的烧钱机器，还会摧毁微软自身的AI增长叙事；如果不救，则前期投资打水漂，云服务大客户流失。这种两难境地揭示了过度绑定高风险前沿技术的系统性反噬风险。
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合計数百回、時には数千回に及ぶLLM呼び出しの中で、有望な仮説をさらに深掘りするのか、まったく新しい角度に広げるかを、Sakana Marlinはその都度判断しながら探索します。
数百到数千次 LLM 调用完成一次研究任务——这个规模令人震惊。一个用户提交一个研究主题，背后触发的是数千次 AI 推理调用，形成一棵庞大的假设探索树。从成本角度看，如果每次 LLM 调用均价 0.1 美元，1000 次调用就是 100 美元的计算成本。「数周人力工作」的价值与「100 美元计算成本」之间的鸿沟，正是 AI 替代知识工作的核心经济逻辑所在。
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METR pays human programmers a minimum of $50 per hour, so getting a baseline for a single 160-hour task would cost at least $8,000.
一道测试题的人类基准成本高达 8000 美元——这个数字揭示了 AI 评测的一个被严重低估的物理限制：测量 AI 能力需要大量人类劳动，而随着 AI 能力向「月级任务」延伸，建立可靠基准的成本将呈超线性增长。更根本的问题是：你很难让一个有能力的程序员花数周时间做一个「测试任务」，即便报酬丰厚。人类评测员的可获得性，将成为 AI 能力评估的真正天花板。
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Because Deep Extract is doing more work, it takes longer than a standard extraction call. That said, measured against the real alternative of someone manually reviewing a 500-page fund statement field by field, it's faster, cheaper, and consistent at scale.
大多数人认为更复杂的处理流程必然意味着更高的成本和更慢的速度。但作者提出Deep Extract虽然执行更多工作且比标准提取调用更耗时，但在大规模应用中仍然比人工审查更快、更便宜、更一致，这一观点挑战了人们对于复杂性与效率之间关系的传统理解。
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The cost of understanding what happens in a video has dropped by a factor of roughly 40, while the quality of that understanding has improved dramatically.
大多数人认为AI视频分析仍处于早期阶段且成本高昂，但作者指出AI视频分析成本已大幅下降40倍，质量反而提升。这一反直觉观点暗示视频分析可能已经跨越了实用性的门槛，将催生全新的应用类别，挑战了人们对AI视频处理能力的传统认知。
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The most encouraging finding is that one doesn't need an infinite budget. We found that by optimizing the ratings-per-item ratio correctly... one can achieve highly reproducible results with a modest budget of around 1,000 total annotations.
大多数人认为高质量的AI评估需要大量预算和大量数据，但作者证明通过优化评估者与项目的比例，即使使用适度的总标注量（约1000个）也能实现高度可复现的结果。这一发现挑战了'越多越好'的普遍观念，为资源有限的研究团队提供了实用的评估路径。
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it contains 418 real-world tasks across 6 domains and 3 difficulty levels to evaluate capability synergy, featuring over 2,000 stepwise checkpoints that average 10+ person-hours of manual annotation per task.
大多数人认为AI评估可以通过相对简单的自动化流程完成。然而，作者提出的评估基准需要每个任务超过10小时的人工标注和2000多个检查点，这暗示了真正评估AI代理能力的复杂性和成本远超行业普遍认知。这一观点挑战了AI评估领域的效率优先思维，强调了高质量评估需要大量人工投入的现实。
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This means 2.7x more tokens from the same GB300 NVL72-based infrastructure and power footprint, reducing the cost to manufacture each token by more than 60%.
大多数人认为硬件升级是提高AI性能的主要方式，但作者认为通过软件优化可以在相同硬件上实现2.7x的性能提升和60%以上的成本降低，这挑战了行业对硬件升级的依赖。这种观点暗示软件优化可能比硬件升级更具成本效益。
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By using SAM, the Alta team has been able to process more than 20 million images without incurring exorbitant costs, allowing them to focus on building the best possible product for their users.
大多数人可能认为初创公司需要依赖昂贵的第三方API来处理大量图像，但作者通过使用开源SAM模型，实现了大规模图像处理而不产生巨额成本。这一观点挑战了'高质量AI服务必须昂贵'的行业共识，展示了开源模型在成本效益方面的优势。
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Justifiable Cost PID Services SHOULD be provided at justifiable cost to PID Owners and PID Managers within EOSC.
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A novelmeasure, the Index of Cognitive Activity (ICA), relates cognitive effort to the frequency ofsmall rapid dilations of the pupil.
Summary: This establishes the scientific definition of "transaction cost" in your paper: cognitive effort is physically measurable through pupil dilation.
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the compu-tation cost of KV caches is quadratic to the input sequence length
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bookplus.nikkei.com bookplus.nikkei.com
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顧客のタイプ別に並行分業することもできる。たとえば「一般の消費者向け」と「学校給食向け」「大企業の食堂向け」などに分けて、それぞれが異なる顧客別に同じ食パンを製造していれば、それを並行分業だと位置づけることができる。
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22 drawer card file cabinet 2x11 for auction with a buy it now for $2,500. from West Chester, Pennsylvania,
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letsencrypt.org letsencrypt.org
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Two 3x5 sections of 15 drawers each for a total of 30 along with a section that has 2 writing drawers along with a top and a table leg section listed in December 2024/January 2025 for $3000 with a buy now of $5000.
Free pick up in Oconee, Illinois
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examples - closed source IP externalises cost - closed source circular economy is much more challenging than open source circular economy because - if inputs are kept secret and proprietary, reuse of End of life products are difficult to break down and reuse as input in a re-manufacturing process - closed IP creates fragmented and completing de facto standards that make interoperability impossible
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This lovely old file cabinet is 52" high x 14-3/4" wide x 27-1/2" deep. Each drawer is 6-1/8" wide x 4-6/8" high x 18-1/4" deep. It has a few scratches on the side, but nothing that can't be touched up. Otherwise, it's in good condition. In the early 80's, I worked on a TV series called "Cassie & Co." starring Angie Dickinson. This (and another antique file cabinet) was purchased and used as set dressing in Angie/Cassie's office. When the show was canceled, I bought the cabinets and have had them ever since. I don't have specific background info on them.
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Shaw Walker steel cabinet with brass pulls<br /> 6 columns of 6 drawers for a total of 36. Built in legs. Drawers were listed as 4.5" tall, so likely a 4x6" card catalog even though it was listed as a library catalog from downtown Cleveland Public library.
Listed for 800.00 in Jun 2024
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Oak 20 drawer card index offered on/around 2024-06-24 for $2,900. two columns of 10 drawers each. Local pickup only from Champaign, Illinois
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Die wirtschaftlichen Schäden durch die globale Erhitzung sind sechsmal größer als bisher angenommen und vergleichbar mit denen eines andauernden Kriegs. Ein Prozent Temperaturanstieg verringert einem – noch nicht peer-reviewten – Arbeitspapier des amerikanischen National Bureau of Economic Research zufolge das weltweite Bruttosozialprodukt um 12%. Ein Temperaturanstieg bis 2100 um 3° wird Kapital und Verbrauch im Vergleich zu einer Welt ohne Erhitzung um 50% senken. Ohne die bisherige globale Erhitzung wäre die die weltweite Kaufkraft schon jetzt 37% höher. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/17/economic-damage-climate-change-report
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Shaw Walker steel cabinet with brass pulls offered for $800 at auction ($1,200 buy it now) o/a 2024-05-03
Modular in 4 sections with 2 sets of drawers (each 6x3 for a total of 36 drawers) and a top and a bottom.
Cost per drawer: $22.22
This is a rarer modular set up.
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It is there-fore to be expected that the initial cost of the card system is nota fair criterion of its cost when in working order.
Setting up and learning a note taking or card index system has a reasonably large up-front cost, but learning it well and being able to rely on it over long periods of time will eventually reap larger and cheaper long-term outcomes and benefits.
Unless changing systems creates dramatically larger improvements, the cost of change will surely swamp the benefits making the switch useless. This advice given by Kaiser is still as true today as it was in 1908, we tend not to think about the efficiency as much now as he may have then however and fall trap to shiny object syndrome.
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Don't see these often. Rubbermaid stackable plastic card indexes offered for $70.00 on 2024-03-02
cost per drawer: $23.33
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2024-03-02 Listed for sale or best offer at 1,275. 72 drawers with plastic drawers. Darker wood, in good shape. missing 4 rods and has one damaged front frame.
Likely mid-70s to early 80s
Freight shipping available or local pick up in Comfort, TX.
Cost per drawer: $17.70
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Previously listed (late Summer 2023). Offered for bidding at $7,200 for a Jens Risom Library Card catalog on/around 2023-09-16. Local pickup from Pageland, SC. Ex-library from Davidson College Library in North Carolina tag number 01359.
Section of 6x5 and another of 6x7 for a total of 72 drawers with a middle section which has two pull out writing drawers.
Cost per drawer at opening bid: $100.00
2023-09-25: Relisted at https://www.ebay.com/itm/374948492633
2024-02-29 Relisted at https://www.ebay.com/itm/375282966486
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2024-02-19 120 drawer cabinet, solid in four sections of 8x4 with a set of four writing drawers in the middle. No table, but a very low slung simple base. Listed for $4,000 or best offer for pick up only in Greenbriar, TN. No manufacturer listed. Appears to be all wood and metal, but no photos of internals.
Relatively rough shape with mediocre finish. Two drawers are mismatched and darker. A couple of the label/pulls are broken or hanging, Missing a few rods. One drawer front is entirely broken.
Cost per drawer: $33.33 per drawer.
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2024-02-06: 15 drawer (5x3) card catalog offered for starting bid of $200. 3 piece sectional with top, drawers and simple table base with spindle legs. Appears to be in maple with polished steel fittings.
Manufacturer: none listed<br /> Location: Local pick up from Niagara Falls, NY
Condition: the finish on this is shot and is either cracked, peeling, or generally non-existent on the outside. Missing two rods. Finish on the wood inside appears solid.
Cost per drawer: - opening bid of $200: $13.33
This was later relisted at https://www.ebay.com/itm/166595950156 and ultimately sold for $255.00.
Cost per drawer: $17.00
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2024-02-01 Listed Shaw-Walker four drawer side table for $95 and it sold within a day for local pick up.
Cost per drawer: $23.75
I inquired about this, but missed out on it by just a few hours. I totally want a pair of these as end tables for a couch or a cozy club/reading chair.
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Seller description: 1902 Shaw Walker Card Catalog and File Cabinet 3 piece stackable $765 Listed 19 weeks ago in San Bernardino, CA Details
Condition Used - Good Color Brown Material WoodSuper nice old antique card catalog Stackable Oak wood Very few marks for its age 1902 original tags inside it Simply elegant piece No missing pieces no scratches 76 t 16 w 19 d
Jeanie Lowry listing from October 2023 and sold in late 2023 potentially for $765 or less.
Sectional Shaw-Walker modular card catalog and filing cabinet. 3 sections of 2x3 drawers for 3x5" cards and one section of 2x1 along with a two 8.5x11" filing drawers and a writing desk pullout section.
22 total drawers but 20 for index cards
Cost per drawer: $34.77 (sold)
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Solid Gaylord Bros. 60 drawer card catalog for pick up in San Bernardino, CA by Jeanie Lowry on Facebook. Reasonable shape despite some dings, especially to the wood facia at the bottom. One metal drawer pull shorn off, but looks like it had all it's rods as well as three writing drawers in the middle.
2023-01 Listed for ??<br /> Sold sometime in early 2024 presumably for $525
Seller description: Beautiful Vintage 1950’s Bro Dart Card Catalog Vintage 60 Drawer Card Catalog One drawer handle has the hook missing 3 of the slide in bars missing Some wear on the bottom panel Drawers are strong with brass handles and screws 60 inches tall 40 1/2 wide 17 1/2 deep Drawers are 5 1/2 inches wide Very heavy Great piece would look so great in a retail setting
Cost per drawer: $8.75
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2024-02-01 Originally listed for 1,100 or so and slowly decreased to $990 on 2024-02-17 at which point it was listed as "not in stock", so unsure if actually sold.
Gaylord Bros. 25 drawer modular card catalog in 4 sections including top and table/legs and two drawer sections of 5x2 and 5x3. in reasonable but somewhat rough condition. for pick up in San Bernardino, CA from Jeanie Lowry
Offered as part of a Facebook garage sale which included a similar 30 drawer catalog with pull out writing desks and a handful of metal card filing cabinets meant for punch cards.
1960’s 25 Drawer Card Catalog Hard to find item In great shape 40 1/2 T, 33 W, 17 D
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Free local pick up in Rutherford, NJ and listed for $513 shipping to Los Angeles.
Cost per drawer (without shipping): $133
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2024-02-06 Remington Rand 60 drawer modular card catalog offered for sale at $2,500 with local pick up only in Laurel, DE.
7 pieces: table/base; writing drawer with 2 pull outs, top, and 4 sections of 5x3 drawers.
Condition: Generally pretty good. Missing manufacturer plackard, Missing 15 rods. Some finish/paint peeling on the top.
Cost per drawer: $41.66
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2024-02-06 Gaylord Bros. modular 3 piece card catalog with 15 drawers (5x3), table, and top offered for bidding at $500 with a buy it now of $2,000. Local pick up only from Franklin Square, NY.
In pretty dreadful condition, mismatched drawers, wood and metal with plastic trays in drawers instead of wood. Heavy water damage to stain/finish on the top.
Cost per drawer: - minimum auction price of $500: $33.33 - buy it now price of $2,000: $133.33
I suspect this won't sell for quite a while at this price and in this condition.
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Steelcase 8 drawer (x 2 rows per drawer) card index offered for $450 in downtown Los Angeles area in late December 2023. Looks to be in good condition with some nice art deco detailing.
Antique two tone card file with 8 drawers. Extremely rare in excellent condition. Detailed handles and opener latch with beautiful metal work. These typically sell for $1400 or more so it is priced to sell. Possible delivey depnding on your location. 52" height x 15" across x 28" deep
Most likely for 4x6" index cards, but messaged owner to check
Cost per drawer: $28.12
Likely capacity: 57,000 cards
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2024-01-30 3 Library card charging trays offered for $100 from Hondo, TX.
Cost per drawer: 33.33
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60 drawer wooden card catalog in a very long 12x5 configuration offered for sale at $800 on Facebook marketplace in September 2023. Sold in the fall for unknown price, though likely close to 800.
Cost per drawer: $13.33
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2023-09 36 drawer wooden card catalog (no manufacturer; looks custom) offered for $850 and sold sometime in the fall 2023. Rough, but rustic shape. Possibly a modular unit of two 6x3 sections with a custom top attached.
Cost per drawer: $23.60
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2024-01 Offering three Cole Steel card filing cabinets for $165 each. Industrial beige 20 gauge steel in good condition with locks.
Size: 52 h x 19 w x 29 d
10 sections of 2 drawers for 20 actual drawers.
Based on communication with the seller their internal space is 4" high by 7.5" so they were likely designed for punch cards (7 3/8 by 3 1/4").
Cost per drawer: $8.25.
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78 drawer library card catalog cabinet offered for sale for $850 with local pick up only from Bennington, VT on 2024-01-31.
Solid single cabinet likely in maple. Missing all rods, water spots, stain missing, lots of scratches and scrapes. Not in great condition. No manufacturer listed.
Cost per drawer: $10.90
(one of the lowest per drawer, but also in bad shape.)
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15 drawer card catalog offered 2024-01-31 for $2995.00 with freight shipping (extra) from South Bend, IN. Looks to be in walnut and chrome.
Unknown manufacturer and doesn't look familiar. Odd drawer pulls, but looks in good shape and has all rods. Bottom base in chrome.
Cost per drawer: 200.00
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35 drawer modular card catalog in light mid century modern design. Table with stick legs a 5x6 section including two pull out writing drawers, a 5x1 section and a top. Likely maple, in great shape. All wood and metal, includes all rods.
Listed in 2024-01-29 for $3995.00 with freight shipping extra from South Bend, IN
Labeled as a Centura 400 (model?)
Cost per drawer: $114.00
This is the first time I've seen a catalog from Sjöström on the market though on searching there are a handful floating around.
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All wood and metal 12 drawer Brodart card index offered for auction on 2024-01-28 for $500.00 or best offer. Good condition despite missing a rod and having mixed silver and brass fittings on the unit. (3 silver drawer pulls/plackards and 5 silver rods with the remainder in brass.)
Local pick up only from Lock Haven, PA.
Cost per drawer: 41.66
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12 drawer (3 x 4) card index from Library Bureau in generally good looking shape from January 2024-01-28 listed for $385.00 (+ a ridiculous $203.77 shipping fee from North Canton, OH to Los Angeles).
Looks to be ex-library from Colgate University, in all wood and metal and in excellent shape. Missing all the catalog rods however.
I'm doing the cost per drawer based only on the opening bid price despite the gouging of the shipping price. Many sellers seem to be tacking on an above average shipping charge to pad their sale prices and potentially shift commissions from ebay.
Cost per drawer: $32.00
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2024-01-16 60 drawer card catalog offered for bid at $2100 and buy it now at $4,400. Solid cabinet in good shape, missing one rod. All wood. Has three writing drawers. Shippable from Huffman, TX for $92.83.
Cost per drawer: - bid offer: $35.00 - buy now: 73.33
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January 2024 15 drawer Gaylord Bros. card catalog in maple offered for $949.95 as local pick up only from Charlotte, NC. Missing two rods, very dodgy finish. Modular three piece: top, 5x3 and table base.
cost per drawer: $63.33
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January 2024: offering two separate 60 drawer card catalogs for sale OBO at $3,500.. Semi-modular with separate leg bases. Each has 3 writing drawers. Finish in rough shape, missing some rods.
Cost per drawer: $29.16 (Presuming both for the $3,500)
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Brodart 9 drawer card catalog. Generally good shape, some issue with finish, no rods. Offered for $250 in January 2024. Pick up or shipping from Garden Grove, CA
Cost per drawer: $27.77
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2023-12-28 6 drawer 5 x 8" card index in good condition being auctioned for $399.57 (and up) with shipping additional.
Cost per drawer: (at auction start) $66.60
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Library card catalog offered for sale, modular with ten of five drawers each for a total of 50 drawers including a top section and a base with legs, and two writing drawers. For local pick up from Smyrna, GA listed in 2023 (date ??; saw in December 2023) for $799.00. Appears to be in excellent condition. Unsure of all of rods, but most appear present.
Cost per drawer: $15.98.
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Dark stained oak library catalog (single piece with a solid base) with 9 drawers in four sections of three for a total of 108 drawer listed in mid November 2023 for $3,000. Three or four drawers are missing or have damaged hardware. No extant catalog rods. Otherwise very pretty and darker than most.
Local pick up only in Moorpark, CA.
Make/model? Has the look of mid century Gaylord, but it's an uncommon form factor.
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Vintage library catalog cabinet. Solid oak, 60 width, 69.5 height and 18 inches deep. Some drawers missing hardware. LOCAL PICKUP ONLY IN CITY OF MOORPARK, CA
Cost per drawer: $27.77
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2023-12 Listing for Remington Rand metal card index filing cabinet with 8 drawers (2 slots per drawer) for 250.00 for local pick up only in Mesa, AZ. Based on exterior dimensions, this would be for 4x6" cards, but it isn't specifically specified.
Cost per drawer: $15.63
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2023-12-23 sectional (top and 6x3 section of drawers) 18 drawer card catalog offered for sale with local pick up only in Taunton, MA for $450.00.
In very rough shape with scratches, finish missing, some warping, peeling, no base, no rods (but also no hardware for rods). Few staples in wood. In good enough shape for easy refinishing without restoration work however.
Cost per drawer: $25.00
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Industrial metal card catalog with 9 drawers containing 36 sections for 3x5" index cards. A tenth bottom drawer contains extra non-card space. Offered in late December 2023 for 450.00. Heavily used, stickers in label areas, some exterior hardware missing, some rust visible. Local pick up only in Rosamond, CA. Apparently there is no marking or manufacturing name plate; seller believes it to be Remington from 1940's, but without any evidence.
Cost per drawer: $12.50
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2023-12-20 (ish) 15 drawer Library Bureau (division of Remington Rand) partial card catalog offered for $399.75 for local pick up only in Hopkinton, MA. Appears to be wood with plastic drawer inserts.
It's part of a larger modular system and is missing the top as well as any base. All the rods are missing.
Cost per drawer: $26.65
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Vintage Imperial card catalog for 5 x 8" index cards
Listed for auction in December 2023. After 14 bids, sold for $158.50 on 2023-12-11. Seems rare for these to actually sell by auction.
Cost per drawer: $39.63.
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A Remington Rand, oak card catalog with two 6 x 5 sections for a total of 60 drawers in a solid cabinet with a middle section including three writing drawers. Well used moving towards shabby. Missing all the rods and some drawers missing either exterior hardware and/or replaced drawers (wood doesn't quite match).
Cost per drawer: $10.83
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2023-12-10 (ish): Listed for bidding with a reserve. This should be an interesting experiment as rarely are these offered this way. I suspect that the reserve won't be met.
Local pick up from Gainesville, FL.
Cost per drawer: tk
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72 drawer library card catalog listed for sale on 2023-11-05 for $850.00 with local pick up only in Asheboro, NC. Mid century modern in Maple with plastic drawers. Heavily used and some damage visible, but functional shape. Two sections separated by 3 writing drawers. Likely from 70s.
Cost per drawer: $11.80.
2023-11-29 relisting: https://www.ebay.com/itm/126210967207
2023-12-06 delisted https://www.ebay.com/itm/166481183026 Indicated that it was no longer available, so potentially sold for the $850 (or less)
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2023-12 A 60 drawer cabinet on aluminum legs missing all the rods. Middle has three writing drawers. Local pick up from Powder Springs, GA.
I've never seen a model like this. Looks like wooden veneer with aluminum fittings and 70s aluminum legs. Plastic drawers.
Cost per drawer: $6.25
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2023-12-06: Gaylord Bros. 9 drawer card catalog listed for $1,100. In rough shape and missing all the rods. Shipping from Alamo, CA.
Cost per drawer: $122.22
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2023-12-06: 60 drawer card catalog (Gaylord Bros. though not identified as such) with three writing drawers as a continuous cabinet listed for $1,250 for local pick up only from Lake City, PA.
Cost per drawer: $20.83
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Not described as such, but the internal linking mechanisms of the piece indicate it as a Gaylord Brothers card catalog.
2023-12 Gaylord Bros. 30 drawer modular card catalog with two sections of 15 , a leg base, and writing drawer section with two drawers. Listed for $1,195 for local pick up only in Freeport, OH.
cost per drawer: $39.83
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This Yawman & Erbe multi-drawer piece sold for $250 by auction on eBay o/a 2023-12-03. A variety of filing drawers, but doesn't appear to have been specifically for index cards.
Cost per drawer: $8.93
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It's been listed a while, but first saw 2023-12-02 for $3,699.00. Local pick up from Green Bay, WI and flat rate shipping for $399.00
35 drawer modular Gaylord Bros. card catalog. 2 sections of 15 and one section of 5 along with a sectional two writing drawers and a table base with thin legs.
Modest wear, some minor water damage on one section, has all the rods, some sticker damage to finish in label areas.
cost per drawer: 105.68
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Offered for $1,292.00 for auction on 2023-09-24 with free local pick up from Bayonne, NJ. Modular, unlabeled Card catalog with standalone (non-interlocking) 5x3 set of drawers and a section with two pull out writing drawers.
Cost per drawer: $86.13
This has been listed separately in the past year, but taken off eBay for several months before this relisting. (versus being continually relisted...)
2023-10-11: Relisted at https://www.ebay.com/itm/155822159839 for $1292.00
2023-12-02: Relisted at https://www.ebay.com/itm/155923155812 for 1292.00
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Yawman & Erbe metal filing cabinet for 3x5" index cards with 10 drawers, each with two sections (equivalently 20 drawers). Approximate capacity 27" / 0.0072"/card = 75,000 cards.
Listed on 2023-12-02 for 800.00 with local pick up only from Putney, VT.
Looks like some heavy wear; enough that I'd likely refinish it for office use.
Marking as I don't think I've ever seen a Y&E cabinet made in metal before.
Cost per drawer: $40.00
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2023-11-17 Gaylord Bros. modular 15 drawer card catalog with table/stand listed for $2995.00. Almost exactly like the one I paid $250 for (mine had an additional section of drawers.) Looks like it's slightly rougher condition than mine even.
Cost per drawer: $199.00
This may be one of the highest I've seen per drawer.
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I remember this came on the market in Fall 2023 in September or October for $975.00. it's a modular portion of a card catalog with what looks like an added top. 5 x 4 set of 20 drawers; appears to be in rough shape. Drawers are wood, so maybe late 60s early 70s? No rods.
2023-11-13, seller sent me an offer to purchase for $400.
Local pick up from Senatobia, MS.
Cost per drawer: $48.75 Cost per drawer revised at 400: $20.00
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9 drawer desktop all-wood and metal index card cabinet for sale o/a 2023-11-12. Local pick up from Fargo, ND. Excellent looking condition, all rods, nice detailing and woodwork. Early XX C. Listed for sale at $500.00
Cost per drawer: $55.55
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This antique stacking file cabinet set is a beautiful addition to any home or office. Made of oak and manufactured by Globe Wernicke in the United States, these cabinets are both original and handmade. With a height of 78.5 inches, length of 25 inches deep, and width of 33 inches, they provide ample space for storage without taking up too much floor space.
Modular/stackable, oak, multi-drawer, multi-size index card cabinet by Globe-Wernicke offered around 2023-09-20 for $10,500 (starting bid) or $15,000 (purchase). Free pick up from Lindon, UT.
Appears to be a section of 6x1 drawers of 3x5 cards, a section of 4x1 5x8 cards, a section of 4x2 drawers for 4x6" cards, two sections of 3x1 drawers for 8.5x11 paper, a cabinet section and a bottm section of two pull out drawers.
Total of 26 various sized drawers.
(Second photo shows a separate unit of 9 filing cabinet drawers in three sections of three with a lower cupboard section; are they listed together though? If they're together then one could add another 9 drawers to the original 26 and recalculate the numbers below).
cost per drawer: $403.84 (opening bid); $576.92 (purchase)<br /> (based on 26 drawers total)
This is not as common as most certainly and earlier XX C.
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Gaylord maple library card catalog with 60 drawers in two sections with a section of three drawer pulls and a table leg base in excellent looking condition. Listed on 2023-09-06 for bidding starting at $1,800.00 with free local pick up from Mountain View, CA.
$30 per drawer
Bidding ended on 2023-09-15 with 0 bidders.
2023-09-30 Relisted for $1800 for bid. 2023-10-26 Relisted again $1800 https://www.ebay.com/itm/225841205111
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42 drawer Shaw-Walker (Chicago - Muskegon - New York) card file. Listed as tiger oak, but seems to have a dark finish/varnish, so couldn't confirm listing. Pictured as a sectional with 4 5x2 sections (one of which looks like it's got metal drawers, a top, and a base with two wider drawers.
Listed in early October 2023 for $1,000 for pick up only in Maurertown, VA.
cost per drawer: $23.80
2023-10-25: Received offer from seller to purchase for $895.00
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Listed as 1950s, but more likely 1970s due to the plastic drawers and galvanized stops.'
72 drawer card catalog offered for $4500 from South Bend, IN around 2023-10-24. Two sections of 6x6 separated by three writing drawers. No base, so it sits directly on floor. Looks to be in excellent condition with all the card rods.
Cost per drawer: $62.50
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Offered for $2,200 for local pick up only in Waverly, AL. 60 drawer maple card catalog; all wood, in somewhat rough shape comparatively. Solid unit with two sections of 6x5 separated by three writing drawers and a solid bottom base.
cost per drawer: $36.67
missing all the original card catalog rods
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30 drawer card catalog in 2 parts with two writing drawers in the middle and a matching table stand. In mediocre shape and has two replaced drawers (metal and/or plastic, not wood). Drawers are maed in all wood
Listed at $1,5000 for over 3 months. $50 per drawer.
2023-10-12: Still listed for sale. Local pick up only from Brentwood, CA
cost per drawer: $50
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Listed in late summer/early fall 2023.
Art Metal Company card catalog (drawer sizes maybe 6x9" index cards? with 32 3/4 W x 38 3/4" H x 18 1/2" D). Possibly sectional with top and short leg sections, two sections of 3x2 drawers and a storage section with two doors. Nice patina.
Listed originally at $1,200 and put on sale in early October 2023 for $960. Local pick up in Savannah, GA.
Cost per drawer: $85.71 ($68.57 on sale)
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18 drawer library card catalog listed for sale at $1,800 and local pick up in Cabot, AR. Fairly standard looking early century mounted onto a small stand that looks like a repurposed table carriage with legs. (Wood on the two parts is different. Missing 7 drawer pulls, no card catalog rods.
Cost per drawer: $100
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Uncommon Shaw-Walker 4 drawer card cabinet/side table in a 2x2 configuration with leg-based stand. Listed around 2023-10-04 for $1,375.00.
Possibly modular and made of 3-4 individual stackable pieces.
Free pick up or shipment from DeKalb, IL
cost per drawer: 343.75
(This may be one of the most expensive per drawer I've ever seen.)
2023-10-11 The seller made me an offer to purchase for $950.00 bring down the per drawer cost to $237.50.
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2023-10-05 72 drawer library card catalog listed for sale at $850.00 with local pick up only from Mechanicsville, VA. No brand name listed. Plastic drawers with wooden fronts. Two sections of 6x6 drawers separated by a section with three writing drawers. Appears to be a solid piece with a solid base. In generally good condition.
cost per drawer: $11.80
Not a bad deal here, esp. if you're local.
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Library Bureau library card catalog with what looks like two 5x5, and two 5x6 sections, one section of five pull out writing desks, and a top making up 110 drawers.
In rough but serviceable shape, has a few fittings issues and some of the finish is in tough shape along with some wood pieces gouged out. Looks to be all oak (including internals of drawers aside from usual drawer pulls and rods, almost all of which are present.
Listed on 2023-09-30 for $3,000 for free local pick up from Merced, CA.
Cost per drawer: $27.27
2023-10-03: Seller made me an offer to purchase for $2,500.
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2023-09-18 4x9 unit of 36 drawers card index with additional large bottom drawer offered for $1,500.
Overall dimension 69"H x 37"W x 14.5"D with large card format drawers. ??
Cost per drawer: $40.54
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Library card catalog section listed for $329.00. Single section of 5x1 with 10 drawers. It's had pieces of material stapled on the top/bottom to cover up the stacking holes. Missing card rods. Drawer internals appear to be plastic (70s or later), rods removed and replaced with carpet/material to cover up holes. For free local pick up in Sacramento, CA.
Most likely a Gaylord Bros., but not labeled.
cost per drawer: $32.90
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2023-09-29 $275.00 starting bid auction Listing of Remington Rand 12 tray section (in 6 drawers) card catalog (possibly 3 x 5" cards, but ad indicates a smaller internal dimension). Meant to be modular with other cabinets and doesn't have the side panels. Drawers pull out on metal sliders.
Free local pick up from Haymarket, VA
This cabinet was designed to fit side by side with similar cabinets. It is in excellent condition as shown. Large deep drawers operate smoothly. Original bakelite hardware suggests it may have been made during WW11. Clearly marked USVA . And “Library Bureau.”Cabinet measures 36" tall, 14 1/2" wide, 27" deep. Inside drawers measure 10 1/2" wide, 3 1/2" tall & 24" deep. Very nice old piece with a few scratches and very few dents. Got some nice items in other listings. Pick up in Northern VA or possible delivery.
cost per drawer: $22.91
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2023-09-25 offered for $1,350 + $200 shipping from Lawrenceburg, IN to Los Angeles.
12 drawer 2x6 configuration card index in filing cabinet configuration made of 6 modular/stackable 2x1 units with a small table stand.
Seller indicates it may have been a Macey, but the label has worn off. Red could potentially have been a Weiss or Macey-Wernicke label? Would need to cross check others. Very early 1900s in oak, all wood with thin metal card stops on rails, but otherwise no other card index rods.
13.5 x15x42 as measured, so like a 4 x 6" card index, but should double check.
Cost per drawer: $112.50
2023-09-27: Seller made a purchase price offer of $1000.
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Saw for sale on/around 2023-05-17 for $3,000, though willing to accept $2,500 (or lower). Still on offer 2023-09-24.
Gaylord Bros. 5 piece sectional library card catalog with two 5x3 sections of drawers, a pull out writing desk (with two pull outs), a top and a base table.
cost per drawer: $100
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Vintage Y&E mixed card index. Listed in September 2023 for 199.00 with local pick up in Oregon City, OR.
Appears to be a wooden, quarter sawn oak modular card index with a row of 5 4x6" drawers and two rows of three 6x9 drawers.
Finish could use some TLC. 33" W x 21.25" H x 17.5" D<br /> 11 Drawers. Each drawer has a track with a working metal card holder that can be repositioned along the track. 2 stacked / stacking sections: Top section has 5 narrow drawers. Bottom section has 6 larger drawers.
cost per drawer: $18.09
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60 drawer library card catalog unit with 2 sections of 6x5 drawers separated by three pull out writing drawers with a solid "skirt" base in what appears to be oak with polished metal fittings. Missing all the card catalog rods. Likely 70s, possibly from Remington Rand(?).
Offered for $1,700 as straight purchase on 2023-09-25
By labelling it appears to have been used for craft supply storage. Ex-library Cal State Chico.
Cost per drawer: $28.33
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Unbranded four drawer 2x2 desktop card index in oak. See on 2023-09-24 offered for $124.99 plus $92.53 shipping from Hobart, IN. Overall 12" H x 15" W x 15" D, so likely for 4 x 6" cards though the listing says "The inside of the drawers are 3 inches deep, 6 inches wide, and 13 inches long."
Medium condition.
Cost per drawer: $31.25
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Vintage wooden card catalog. No brand name listed. Appears to be a grouping of 8 3x2 card indexes with relatively wide spacers between each drawer.
Total of 48 drawers listed in September 2023 for $1,500 for free pick up in Chicago, IL. <br /> Dimensions 64.75" x 41.6 x 17.5
cost per drawer: $31.25
Seller lists it as:
Blonde maple wood brushed bronze hardware. Approximately 64" x 40" x 18" deep. 3 solid wood slide out writing surfaces Solid wood frame / cabinet and drawer fronts heavy plastic drawer body / inside. All drawers open close, needs cleaning, some handles missing a few screws, has some flaws / damage, see pictures. Sides are not finished. For local pickup located in Chicago 60606.
Though it looks more like oak than maple and the photos don't indicate any pull out writing drawers. No photo indication of catalog drawer rods on the exterior, but the interior looks like it may have an internal rod for a card stop.
drawers approx 7.5" high x 5.9" so not sure if they're made for standard sized index cards of a particular type. If the Rubbermaid containers inside are the 6 qt size with Outside Dimensions 13. 375 in. L x 8. 375 in. W x 4. 75 in. H
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Offered circa July 2023 for $200 and sold circa September 2023.
Gaylord brothers three piece modular library card catalog circa 1950's. Acquired by seller prior to a school demolition. Top cover appears to be homemade and covered with cloth. Other pieces are standard 5x3 grouping of 15 drawers and lower table unit. Missing all the catalog rods.
cost per drawer: $13.30
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Remington Rand Library Card Catalog Cabinet $3,500 · In stock<br /> Listed in Altadena, CA, circa May 2023
Solid unit with base containing two small cabinet compartments and two sections of 6x5 for a total of 60 drawers and three writing drawers. Rods look intact
62.5"H x 41"W x 19"D 60 drawers and large storage cabinet below. On casters/wheels! Vintage 1950-1960 from Cal Poly Library. Maple Wood Very few blemishes. All drawers with working parts, super clean. No history of any damage. I've reduced the price!
Cost per drawer: $58.33
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it's 2023 and I don't see anyone planning for this massive job displacement, I think that the hollywood strikes are a sign of things to come
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Gaylord Bros. library card catalog offered on 2023-09-21 for $4,995.00 from South Bend, IN.
60 Drawer modular cabinet with four sections of 5x3 drawers and two separate sections of two pull out writing drawers (for a total of four). Appears to be in good condition, made with internal plastic drawer/trays. Lilely from 60s/70s or later.
Cost per drawer: $83.25
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Brodart 72 drawer library card catalog offered for sale for $1995.00 in at least mid 2023 if not earlier. Local pick up from Twin Lake, MI. A bit beat up. Appears to be maybe late 60s/early 70s. Has plastic drawers.
Two sections of 6x6 separated by three pull out writing desks.
Cost per drawer. $27.70
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Listed on 2023-09-17 for starting bid of $600 with a purchase price of $795.00. With $100 shipping to Los Angeles from Bartow, FL.<br /> In excellent looking condition. Restored?<br /> two drawers, but each one has two rows of cards, so technically four drawers.
Missing card catalog rods, so likely used for something other than cards at one point.
Cost per drawer: $150 per "drawer" at the opening bid price.
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Market analysis of library card catalogs in 2023.
As card catalogs lost their functionality in libraries and were de-acquisitioned there was a wave of nostalgia which caused people to purchase them, often in auctions, at higher than expected prices. Once they had them, most of these purchasers realized that they didn't have functional uses in their homes for them (beyond wine or liquor bottle storage, small crafts, or use as a zettelkasten, which seem to be the only reasonable upcycling use cases I've seen and the last seems to be very rare and niche). They sit and take up space for very little value in return beyond some esthetic beauty and nostalgia. As a result many soured on their ownership. Most owners naturally want to recoup their original purchase price thinking that relative rarity will save them.
Combined with this there was a resurgence in mid-century design esthetic which had some furniture restorers and designers buying and doing full (and very pretty) expensive restorations of older 20s - 40s versions which sold at auctions for $4,500 and up. Given the rarity of some of these older, fine furniture versions along with the work in restoration and the limited market only those who had a tinge of nostalgia and money to burn made purchases which resulted in a limited number of actual sales.
These two factors mean that almost all of the listings for library card catalogs are heavily overvalued on eBay, Facebook Marketplace, Craig's List, Etsy, etc. The fine furniture restorations have set an artificially high price point which some feel theirs must match as well. The difference in quality however is stark. Because of their size and lack of functionality, there is a relative glut of them on the market which all bear inflated prices. Those who originally spent inordinate amounts for them, feel they will still have that same value to others, so they list them online for inflated prices.
I've been closely watching the online "market" for them for over a year and see the same several dozen or more listed across the country usually in the range of about $30-$60 per drawer. Many are listed as local pick up only, which further hampers the overall market. This also brings up the issue of shipping a 60 drawer card catalog which can easily run in the $800-$1,500+ range which usually requires additional shipping logistics involved with freight. Most catalogs are already overpriced, but adding an additional $1000 tax on top is a bridge too far for all but the highest end of the market. Some platforms like Etsy and eBay which take cuts of the final sale also add to the cost of the sale.
In the year and a half or more that I've been watching, I've only seen a handful of actual sales, all of which were local, and many of which were in the Los Angeles area. All of these sales have been for listings which eventually were reduced down to the $15 per drawer range. One local sale was in Wisconsin was for $10 per drawer (a 30 drawer file) and another in Los Angeles was for $12.50 per drawer (on a 20 drawer file).
A note on condition
Outside of a small handful of fine furniture listings in the $4,000+ range, most ex-Library card catalogs are generally very well worn and not in great condition which makes them less valuable as decoration pieces. In fact, many are often missing their original card catalog rods, have dents, dings, or other cosmetic issues. Some are missing drawers or have replacement drawers which don't match. Some may be slightly mismatched having been purchased in different eras as modular pieces and put together. Frequently they have been modified from their original states to include inserts or other material to fill in the holes which where almost standard in the bottoms of the drawers.
Advice
If you're in the market, know that it is tremendously inflated, a fact which most sellers are aware of as they've got them listed, some for many years, not resulting in actual sales. If you really want one and find it in a reasonable condition, I highly recommend making an offer for it at about $10 per drawer and potentially go up to $15. Anything higher than that is overpaying based on actual recent market conditions. If you have the money to burn, feel free, but keep in mind that like many others in the past, once the initial nostalgia has passed, you've probably got a large piece of relatively non-functional furniture in your home.
It's not common, but some government auction sites will list card catalogs for auction from time to time. Because they actively want to sell them these can be purchased in the $2-10 per drawer range or less. Often they tend toward the larger 60+ drawer range, aren't in good condition, or need to be picked up and shipped to your final destination, usually within a few days of purchase as the original owners don't or explicitly won't handle shipping. These are likely to need some restoration work to be decorative pieces in many homes.
If you want something brand new, you can check out Brodart, which is the only remaining card catalog manufacturer/sales firm I'm aware of in the United States. Their systems are modular, so you can pick and choose what you'd like to have. The only caveat is that they start at $1,700 for their smallest 9 drawer model and can go up to $11,648 (plus shipping) for a full 60 drawer model. The other potential drawback, for some, is that they are made of a mixture of wood, metal and plastic versus the all wood and metal fittings of older vintage models.
If you're in the market primarily for nostalgic reasons, then you might also consider looking at some of the older desktop wooden card catalogs which are often much less expensive, take up far less space, and can be wonderfully decorative. Some of the smaller two to six drawer desktop models have the benefit of potentially serving as recipe boxes or paper rolodexes, zettelkasten, or simply small office storage. Here again, the online markets are likely to be heavily overpriced with 2 drawer models being continually listed at $150 and 4 drawer models in the $250-400 range. These sellers know that these prices don't result in actual sales as they've been sitting on them for long periods of time (presumably hoping to get lucky). Here I'd recommend you make offers in the $20-30 per drawer range to see what you can find. Another benefit is that these smaller models are far cheaper to ship across the country. For additional advice on these, see: The Ultimate Guide to Zettelkasten Index Card Storage.
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Dan Allosso purchased a 30 drawer card catalog (three sections of 5 x 2 without any base) for $300 in 2022.
It's pictured on the cover of his book "How to Make Notes and Write".
Purchased at $10 per drawer.<br /> local sale
Price mentioned at the end of Dan Allosso Book Club 2023-09-16.
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Gaylord Bros. 20 drawer library card catalog<br /> listed for $495 in July 2023<br /> $24.75 per drawer
Reduced to $295.00 in September 2023<br /> $14.95 per drawer
Acquired on 2023-09-16 for $250<br /> $12.50 per drawer<br /> local sale
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Wagemaker Furniture Co. made wooden card indexes.
This one was offered in September 2023 at $39.99 + 110.60 in shipping from Columbus, OH to LA.
cost per drawer: $20.00
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24 Drawer steel Card Catalog<br /> $575<br /> Listed Circa May 15, 2023 in Brea, CA
Rusty Gold! This steel case 24 drawer card catalog cabinet is a beauty. Circa 1950’s this tank is a statement piece. All drawers are working and have amazing original pulls! Measurements 52” tall 34” wide 18.5” deep
Delivery available for a fee.
$23.95 per drawer
Owner indicates: <br /> Each drawer is 16” long<br /> 6” wide<br /> 4.5” tall
Mfg??<br /> Separates into multiple sections for shipping.
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Gaylord Library Card Catalog 30 Drawer Wood MCM Mid Century offering at $1,350; originally listed at $1,600 Listed circa July 12 ,2023 in San Leandro, CA
44”x33”x18” total dimensions. Three pieces including traditional table base. with two 5x3 sets of drawers for a total of 30.
Cost per drawer: original offering: $53.33 updated offering: $45.00
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Single drawer 4x6" card index (no mfg) in reasonable, but definitely dirty/used condition.
Listed circa June 27, 2023 for $25 in Los Angeles
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Appears to be a single piece with two sections of 6x5 drawers for a total of 60 separated by three drawer pulls. In excellent shape, but missing many rods.
$18.33 per drawer
Listed in Mid-May 2023 for $1,100 in La Palma, CA
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Brodart Library Card catalog with 60 drawers listed circa Summer 2023 for $1,800 (+62.60 shipping from Pensacola Florida). Appears to be in good condition. Built in solid base and includes three drawer pulls. Doesn't appear to have any rods and looks like it's got plastic drawers rather than wood.
cost per drawer: $30 per drawer
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2 drawer 4 x 6" card index<br /> Listed in September 2023 for starting bid of $32.95
Cost per drawer: $16.45 <br /> Cost per drawer with approx. shipping: $25.75
Purchased 2023-09-10
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Library card catalog with 72 drawers (brand?) has three drawer pulls<br /> Listed in summer (July?) 2023 for $1,850
cost per drawer is $25.69
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20 drawer library card catalog <br /> Listed on 2023-09-01 for $975.00<br /> looks like it's in fairly rough shape, doesn't include base/table
$48.75 per drawer
Seller sent me an offer to purchase this after showing interest<br /> Item ID: 115903620274 <br /> Buy It Now price: $975.00
Your offer: $550.00<br /> Offer expires: Sep-04 19:27:15 PDT Seller: olemissauctions(3,468)
$27.50 per drawer
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15 drawer library card catalog with drawer pulls section<br /> Listed for $875.00 on 2023-09-01<br /> Looks like it's in pretty rough shape and doesn't include table/base
58.33 per drawer
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Gaylord Bros. 30 drawer library card catalog listed for several months/several times, and finally sold 2023-07-24 for $999.99 (with only one bid) in Whitier California.
$33.33 per drawer
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60 drawer library card catalog listed for $1,400 in late May 2023 Sold on 2023-08-11 for best offer (under $1,400)
Likely the same listing on Facebook for $1,100 at https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/271076511951674/
likely went for around $18/drawer
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Globe Wernicke card catalog, 6 drawers listed for $250 in July 2023 is $42 per drawer
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