Parting out on eBay

From: Lawrence LeMay <lemay_at_cs.umn.edu>
Date: Tue Dec 4 10:46:07 2001

This is not exactly correct. The complete 2 rack system did eventually
sell, but not on ebay. He got $2000 for the whole lot. From someone who
claims they would use the system for 'testing'. yeah right.

What he is selling now, are a few gutted chassis. I purchased most of
the PDP 8/e boards from him several weeks ago before I even knew
of these extra chassis'... Mainly floppy controllers, EAE and dectape
controllers. A lot of this stuff was thrown out, so there really werent
that many 8/e cards available.

By the way, the reason that the chassis currently on ebay is including the
few cpu boards, is because I helped them after my sale by letting them
know which of the boards that were still in their inventory would go
with the existing chassis as a very basic system. In other words, there
is no quarantee that those boards will even work with one another,
due to various board revisions.

None of the systems include the jumpers for making the second half
of the omnibus to work. None include the lid/side/back panel.
No top-connectors, no RK05 cables, etc, etc. And the boss wouldnt
sell me one, they're going on ebay.

The one you should be mourning, are the three systems sold by another
company, that just gutted em for the front panels and cards which were
ebay'd, receintly and the rest they didnt even bother putting on ebay...

-Lawrence LeMay

> Yes, he works for a company which sells spares and as such they have
> a large inventory of old machines which have been dismantaled for
> component resale. The industrial 8 seems to have missed the dissassembly
> process originally, but as you say looks like it is now being sold
> in chunks, which is better than in bits and pieces.
>
> He is actually quite reasonably priced for individual boards and such,
> $15 for untested and $20 for tested on most old PDP11 parts...
>
> --tom
>
> At 10:10 AM 12/4/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >Last month someone had an Industrial-8 two rack system with TU56, RK05,
> >high-speed paper tape reader/punch listed on eBay. $1000 was evidently not
> >enough, because now he appears to be selling off the bits. There's
> >currently a listing for "PDP 8 Industrial DEC chassis and front panel" with
> >about three days to go.
> >
> >Kind of a bummer.
> >
> >-- Tony
> >
> >
> >
>
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