20 Jun
2025
20 Jun
'25
2:05 p.m.
On 6/20/2025 11:56 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
Just when I thought eBay couldn't get much
stupider...
I went out to see if I could find a current going price for
PDP-11 Pedestal Boxes as I have a couple I would like to
cull from my collection. I came upon this:
DEC PDP 11/23 - BC needs Power Supply Repair, NO cards, Vintage DEC History
$900.00
If it has no cards, what makes it a PDP-11/23 other than the paint
on the front cover? Dead PSU? Looks like a $900 backplane to me.
And that is making the assumption that the backplane is actually
usable. :-)
bill
Yeah, that one's been there a while. Started out a lot higher. The seller had grand
dreams of what his stuff is worth. He's got a few other DEC itmes and some older PC
stuff.
I just bought a PDP-11/23 in a pedestal box. It started out at $1750 but got no takers.
The seller had lots of exterior photos but nothing of the inside to show for sure what was
in it. The price finally dropped down to $1000 and I bought it. Mostly for the Pedestal
box which was in decent shape but did have a small corner broken off the footing.
Bill, I think you would have buyers if you priced around $500 depending on the
condition. Would it include the BA23 chassis or just be the empty shell?
You won't find any listings just for the Pedestal Box, everything I've seen in the
last year or so has been with the BA23 and at least a few boards and sometimes a complete,
running PDP-11 setup with disk. You will probably have to search the sold listings back
farther than Ebay keeps them to find just the pedestal for sale.
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John H. Reinhardt