MIT flea

From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter_at_shell.monmouth.com>
Date: Mon Apr 20 13:40:13 1998

>
>
> This is the case for the april early birds from what I saw last year.
> As the season progresses (MIT is every month) the mix changes.
>
> < He also had an 11/23 he wanted to sell for $100 and _wouldn't_
> < budge. He told me they were 'classic' computers and could
>
> If it were an 11/20 or 11/05 it's collectable.
>
> Numb is correct. 11/23s are common as house flies and though they are very
> classic and somewhat desireable for pdp-11 hackers he's out of his mind.
> Last year there was someone there doing same and I ended up taking it home
> for free as he couldn't bring it back. Now consider this he was offering
> an 11/23 complete with RX02 and 2meg memory, plenty of serial IO and TWO
> complete copies of RT-11v5, two sets of diagnostics disks and two RT11
> doc sets.
>
> If he parted it out and sold it to one of the used DEC resellers he might
> get 100$ for the peices total.
>
> <PS - I would have paid up to ~$20 for the 11/23, but $100?????
>
> thats about right IF it's at least a complete CPU/mem/io/disk! With some
> software and known operating $50 may not be out of line. more than that
> it better be pristine, FULL COMPLETE DOCS and actually running.
>
>
> Allison
>

Boy I'd pay $100 for a working PDP11/23 with RL02's (at least one working
and bootable).

Bill

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