Is again re: PDP-8 on e-bay

From: Joseph S. Barrera III <joe_at_barrera.org>
Date: Wed Jan 20 14:16:21 1999

>I hate to bring this up again, but has anyone seen the present bid compared
to the
>start bid, and where the high bidder is from, Association for Computing
Machinery
>(acm.org)?? I must have missed the original thread on this but it seems a
bit high
>for a :kind of beat up and working condition unknown" machine. How "rare"
are the
>PDP-8's Seems I see a lot of traffic about them here, they can't be *that*
rare.

I'm joebar_at_acm.org. I know, I'm stupid, but it was just sort of an
impulse kind of thing.

I don't know what the start bid was, but I just somehow entered a
bid a little higher than the reserve. I was thinking, "how much did I
spend last year on that dumb P5-166 box", and used that as a
figure, given that the PDP-8 undoubtably has greater long term
value than the P5-166. (Isn't rationalization wonderful? :-)

- Joe
Received on Wed Jan 20 1999 - 14:16:21 GMT