On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, John Allain wrote:
> >> Now a PDP-1 would certainly be worth 100KUS$,
>
> >..to a collector who had US$100K to throw away and
> > absolutely HAS to have the first PDP-1...
>
> Worth, Costs, Is Valued at... all highly relativistic concepts
> don't you think?
I take exception to Heinz' proclamation that it is "certainly" worth that
much. I disagree with his value. Yes, this pricing is all relative and
subjective.
> What about history? My book says that only 50 PDP-1's were produced.
> Almost certainly 50%++ were scrapped. Anybody know where all the
> PDP-1's are? I'd like to see one (or more).
Maybe Heinz wants to pay US$100K for a PDP-1, but I don't think the rarity
and demand for this system justifies such a value.
> BTW, on thread. A good clean runnung PDP-11 with SW and docs can
> fetch over $4K, to the original question.
Sounds reasonable to me, but it also depends highly on the particular
model.
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