PDP-12 on eBay

From: vance_at_neurotica.com <(vance_at_neurotica.com)>
Date: Tue Jan 14 13:14:04 2003

I know for a fact that they keep a fairly large stock here in
Poughkeepsie.

Peace... Sridhar

On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Doc Shipley wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Tony Duell wrote:
>
> > > Just an observation - this does show how DECcentric this list (and
> > > really, most of the big iron retrocomputing folks) is. There have been a
> >
> > You've made this comment before, and while I totally agree with it, I
> > think there are also possible reasons for it :
> >
> > 1) DEC machines tended to be owned, IBM machines were often rented -> DEC
> > machines were not returned when they were no longer needed, but were
> > pushed into storerooms, etc. Whereupon mad hackers found them
>
> More than that, IBM destroyed a lot of trade-ins and off-lease
> hardware, in order to keep the new market up. They _say_ they no longer
> do so.
>
> Doc
>
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