9 Jan
2022
9 Jan
'22
10:05 a.m.
On Sun, Jan 9, 2022 at 2:56 AM Noel Chiappa via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
As others have mentioned, power is one concern, but my guess is this:
No blinkenlights. It's not exciting looking. This tracks for PDP-11s (and
8's!) as well. No one pays big money for 11/04, 11/34, 11/44 or LSI-11
systems (though prices are creeping up like everything else) but 11/05,
11/40, 11/70, etc. sell for huge amounts every time. There's an 11/70
front panel at over $500 on eBay right now with two days left, it'll
probably sell for $2500.
- Josh
This:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/275084268137
...
Anyway I fully expect it to go ... for a _lot_ more than the opening
price.
Much to my surprise, it didn't sell at all (although a number of other
lots,
likely from this machine, did.)
I'm rather puzzled that an -11/70 will sell for north of $10K, while a /780
can't fetch $5K. I can only guess that PDP-11'S are seen as more important
in
the collector world (even though the BSD work, which had such a huge
impact on
UNIX, which has now - in the form of Linux - taken over the world, was
centered on the VAX).
Noel