IBM Unit Record equipment on eBay

From: William Donzelli <aw288_at_osfn.org>
Date: Thu Jun 12 19:15:00 2003

> I don't know why they decided to start the 548 at $300. Otherwise, it's
> some pretty nice stuff, but the shipping alone will be $1,000 on
> everything. I hope it goes somewhere besides the scrapyard.

Scrap value, probably. There is quite a lot of nice metal in the relay
brains of some of those punch card machines. Probably not $300 worth, but
much more than a brainless 077 or 083.

William Donzelli
aw288_at_osfn.org
Received on Thu Jun 12 2003 - 19:15:00 BST