20 Jun
2025
20 Jun
'25
6:47 p.m.
AT $500 I might be interested to branch out from my pdp-8 world if it
boots a PDP-11 OS (or multiple OS's)
On 6/20/2025 4:05 PM, John H. Reinhardt via cctalk wrote:
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.