26 Jun
2013
26 Jun
'13
6:45 p.m.
On 6/26/2013 7:13 PM, Seth Morabito wrote:
On Jun 26, 2013, at 5:19 PM, ben <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
But for anything less common than that, prices are up
up up. Way up.
My personal favorite toys (DEC gear) are just not common any more at
all. If you want a PDP-11, you can still find them on eBay but
they're $250 for the most common variety, up to $3000 for the rare
Unibus models. If you want a PDP-8/e, expect $2000 and up, depending
on condition. If you want a PDP-10... I'm just kidding, you can't
have a PDP-10! :)
Ok I admit they are not spotted often on ebay.
What happend to all the mainframes?
Those sorts of things are _perfect_ for FPGA. For
right now, though,
it's better to have a real Amiga or a real C64 or a real Apple II,
instead of an FPGA.
Ben.
To bad they did not make the PDP-11 as 18 bits rather than 16.
-Seth
PS. Do they still have the PDP 10 timesharing around?