This is wild on so many axes.

New-in-box hardware from a company trying to do kinda-Prodigy-in-1983 on "proprietary machines that connected to the cable system".

These were stored in a barn until the aging floor started to buckle under their 22 tons, and then sold on EBay for $59.99.

While in the mean time, groups of Canadian enthusiasts had been reverse-engineer the network protocols and running an emulation of its Ottawa instance.