13 Oct
2015
13 Oct
'15
4:38 p.m.
From: Ethan Dicks
I only ever saw one other RK05F in the wild, FWIW.
I only ever saw one, also.
On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Henk Gooijen wrote:
> I remember (just) one RK11-C passing by on eBay ..
at least 8 years
> ago. It sold for ~ $50 (IIRC).
That's an amazing price just for the pile of
FLIPCHIPs.
Hey, back in the late 60's, you could buy an outdated Ferrari racing car, or
a retired Cobra Daytona, for a couple of thousand, US$. Those cars now sell
for tens of millions...
> Will never forget that I let that one go! :-(
The people who passed on those Ferraris, Daytonas, etc now have the same
reaction!
I wonder if PDP-11's will ever get anything like that stupid? Probably not
(although one never knows, q.v. the Ferraris and Daytonas); although I reckon
they will be more noteworthy to later collectors (i.e. who didn't use them
themselves) than most other old machines, because the PDP-11 was the machine
that really set Unix on the road. (Which is not why _I'm_ big on them,
mind...)
Noel