IBM system 3 Re: PDP-12 on eBay (IBM 650 on ebay)

From: lemay_at_cs.umn.edu <(lemay_at_cs.umn.edu)>
Date: Mon Jan 13 13:00:38 2003

> > I curse this day --> Back in college (many years ago, about 1983, before I
> > got into collecting), I went to the apartment of a fellow compsci major to
> > quell some beer. In the middle of his living room was a complete IBM system
> > 3, in perfectly mint condition. He told me I could have it if I could get it
> > out of there. Idiot me said "You gotta be kidding - no thanks". *SIGH*
>
> This seems to be a good test to see if you are an official old-timer in
> the computer collecting hobby - passing up a free machine that today
> people would kill for.
>
> I have been there, many times (IBM, Amdahl, DG). How about others?

Oh, you mean like the day I passed on picking up all the Sun 2/120 systems...
To my credit, I was more interested in the Sun 1/100U's, but letting the
1's blind me to the 2's was just plain dumb.

-Lawrence LeMay
Received on Mon Jan 13 2003 - 13:00:38 GMT