Central Florida Computer Junk Fest !

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Sun Aug 12 13:54:40 2001

How could you not know what its worth? If its yours then you know how much
its worth to "keep it" and thus anything more than that is a what its worth
for someone to take it off your hands. Now I can understand if you're
struggling with the issue of wanting to keep it but external forces such as
spouses, storage requirements etc, are forcing you to part with it. Then
the question of how much would it take before I would part with this jewel
becomes more difficult to answer.

If the question was actually, "However, I don't know what the maximum
amount of money a single individual would pay for this system in this
condition." Then the _only_ way to answer that question is to put it on
Ebay which has a reasonably large sample size of people who might be
interested in that system and are prepared to pay for it.

Finally, the meta-issue is, if you're actually asking the second question
then you shouldn't take it to a group of like minded individuals swapping
"junk." You'll never get the "Ebay price" at a hamfest or a boot sale or
junkfest, the market segment is large enough and there is generally no
mechanism for adjusting the price dynamically.

--Chuck

At 08:12 AM 8/12/01 -0400, you wrote:
> I have computer that's mounted in box that's slightly larger than a
> shoebox that contains a PDP-11/23 CPU, 8" floppy drive, hard drive along
> with RAM, I/O etc. It has RSX-11M installed. I'm debating bringing it to
> the junk fest. However I have no idea what it's worth.
> Joe
Received on Sun Aug 12 2001 - 13:54:40 BST