> From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_freegate.com>
> Sigh. The "PDP-8 in unknown condition" sold for $1526 on Epay. Wonder what
> a cherry 8/E with all the trimmings would fetch? Ugh.
>--Chuck
I sent the seller (dschambe_at_uiuc.edu) three separate emails asking for ANY
details about the system, and I received absolutely nothing in reply. So
I'll never even know what type of PDP-8 it was... probably a VT-78 :-)
Almost certainly not the straight 8 that I naively initially thought it was.
I see that the same seller now has an IMSAI 8080 listed
(
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=59373250), not known
to be working, no pictures, sold as-is. The bid is currently $810 without
having met reserve. Any bets what it will end up going for? ... oh, and the
matching dual floppies (also not known to be working) are also for sale,
currently only $710.
Since I'm blabbing here about ebay posts, be sure to check out the $5000
Rare Xerox Alto II computer system
(
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=58679296) before it
disappears. Oddly, no one has bid on it yet.
- Joe
Received on Sun Jan 24 1999 - 20:02:23 GMT