I don't see much Pr1me gear floating around. Is
it that rare, or do we
just not hear about it?
My guess?
I don't think it's really that rare. Rather, there's not enough demand
to get it noticed by ebayers and scrappers and resellers (and bears, oh
my) such that they try to move parts and systems, because:
* The commercial market (i.e. folks still running it in production) is
much much smaller than e.g. DEC or DG gear. And by and large, they're
not upgrading, just keeping existing systems running.
* The collector community is pretty small. After several years of
pouncing on every Prime-related post here and in c.s.p., the list of
people I know of with at least some interest probably numbers less
than 20.
First Solutions and Computronics and at least one other outfit with a
list member on staff still support customers. I'm sure there are others.
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