IBM 026

Actually, IIRC this was an 029 - thread drift, after LCM (IIRC) enquired about a punch - for them, an 029 seemed as good as an 026. Indeed, this whole list is about people saving computers that don't really have any _practical_ use any more. By definition, from a purely _functional_ perspective, their value is scrap. But our viewpoint is not that - we see them as interesting and historic artifacts - and in that light, their true value is set by that old mechanism, supply and demand. So some antique computers go for what I find remarkably low prices (e.g. QBUS -11 stuff) because there's a good supply, and other very similar machines go for a lot (that 11/70).because they are un-common. And IBM punches are not exactly common items... Noel