6 Jul
2005
6 Jul
'05
3:40 a.m.
--- William Donzelli <aw288 at osfn.org> wrote:
On Ebay a few years back, an IBM 650 only hit $5K.
IBM stuff just doesn't
have the prestige.
Wow! Was it complete? Did anyone save any pictures
from the listing?
You must know of many PDP-1s that we do not, because
I can think of
roughly ten S/360 processors still around. All but
one are in museums.
To the best of my knowledge, there are only three
PDP-1s still in existence, all of which are in the
collection of the Computer History Museum, although
one is on loan elsewhere. That would indeed make the
PDP-1 more rare, though it is amazing that so few
S/360s survive. There are probably bits and pieces of
them still rotting in scrapyards, however. Apparently,
a bunch of them running the FAA ATC system were
retired in recent memory -- as I recall, William
Donzelli knows more about this and may have something
to add.
--Bill