old DEC gear wanted

Jerome Fine replies: I don't have any estimates as to how much "insane" might be, but as a wild guess, from 10 to 1000 times the actual cost of the associated software and hardware for the actual system. So if a typical PDP-11/73 system might have cost $ 20,000.00 new (back in 1985), then the complete application, including associated software and hardware interfaces might be from $ 200,000.00 to $ 20,000,000.00 for just one subsystem. At Ontario Hydro, a typical 3,000 Megawatt station might have cost $ 10,000,000,000.00 to build, so the PDP-11/73 system would be only a small, but critical sub-system. Jay - did you get my reply. Why did you want to contact me? Sincerely yours, Jerome Fine -- If you attempted to send a reply and the original e-mail address has been discontinued due a high volume of junk e-mail, then the semi-permanent e-mail address can be obtained by replacing the four characters preceding the 'at' with the four digits of the current year.