On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Hans Franke wrote:
> > That's because only several thousand PDP-8's were ever produced. Trust
> > me, I don't think you're EVER going to have problems finding a 486
> > motherboard, at least not in the next millenium.
>
> There has been a time when I thougt that picking up
> a ZX80 from dirt is not worth ... and now ?
>
> Also PET - have you seen the PETs on ePay ? I got
> most of my PET/CBMs way below USD 50 - and now ?
> Hard to finde won at a reasonable price.
But again, my point is that there were so many made that it won't matter.
Although my numbers may be wrong according to Tim's post, still though,
we're talking orders of magnitude of 486 boards produced more than any
PDP-8. Finding 486's 20 years from now will be about as fun as finding a
C64 is today.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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