4 Dec
2001
4 Dec
'01
1:41 a.m.
Yes, he works for a company which sells spares and as such they have
a large inventory of old machines which have been dismantaled for
component resale. The industrial 8 seems to have missed the dissassembly
process originally, but as you say looks like it is now being sold
in chunks, which is better than in bits and pieces.
He is actually quite reasonably priced for individual boards and such,
$15 for untested and $20 for tested on most old PDP11 parts...
--tom
At 10:10 AM 12/4/01 -0500, you wrote:
Last month someone had an Industrial-8 two rack system
with TU56, RK05,
high-speed paper tape reader/punch listed on eBay. $1000 was evidently not
enough, because now he appears to be selling off the bits. There's
currently a listing for "PDP 8 Industrial DEC chassis and front panel" with
about three days to go.
Kind of a bummer.
-- Tony