FI: PDP/EBAY/EMAIL

At 04:21 PM 10/2/2004, you wrote: I saw the same thing but noted that it had no front panel. What are you complaining about? He's done serious collectors a favor. The guy thinks he'll get more money that way. Hey, that's the American way, though I think he's wrong. If you want to put an 8 together, the parts will likely go for a lot less than a whole box, even sans the front panel. I bought a stack of 8A boards last week for $100. The last PDP8 that sold on eBay was over $1300 IIRC. Putting a whole (even without front panel) PDP8 on eBay would make a real bidding war and drive the price way up. You'd have a lot of casual lunk heads bidding on it. With pieces, only someone knowledgeable will be interested in bidding. The problem with parting it out is if you get 2 of the 3 parts needed, and then some nitwit bids the world on the 3rd piece you're SOL. I think that happened to someone on the list recently bidding on some PDP8 parts. Should make things interesting. :-) Ed K.