My understand of PDP-1s is that if there are 10 left it's a lot.
the only two I know of was the BCM Machine and one up in
Whitehorse {or was it Yellowknife} running Log/wood mill
accounting system.
Allison
-----Original Message-----
From: John Allain <allain_at_panix.com>
To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: value of classic DEC machines?
>>> 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?
>
>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).
>
>John A.
>
>
>BTW, on thread. A good clean runnung PDP-11 with SW
>and docs can fetch over $4K, to the original question.
>
>John A.
>
>
Received on Wed Oct 24 2001 - 17:53:06 BST