4 May
2024
4 May
'24
2:07 a.m.
In the 1980's I attended a US Gov't auction for a Vax 780. It was being
exported to South Africa and the State Dept stopped the transfer because
it was ultimately going to a banned country. Don't know which one, but
I do remember the system was configured for 50Hz power. 50Hz power,
disks, cpu, everything. Wow.
Doug
On 5/3/2024 8:41 PM, Mike Katz via cctalk wrote:
I wonder if some intermediary is buying it for a
country that cannot
legally purchase something like that from the USA.
I'm not normally a conspiracy guy but why would any normal company pay
half a million dollars for something that could be produced with
today's technology for considerably less?
On 5/3/2024 6:57 PM, Gavin Scott via cctalk wrote:
Sold at $480,085.00.
On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 6:22 PM Gavin Scott <gavin(a)learn.bio> wrote:
> On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 5:14 PM Liam Proven via cctalk
> <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
>> Bad news...
> But does he have 8,000 of them haha.
>
> Auction is at $435K now (past the end time) with multiple active
> bidders extending it.