25 Jan
2004
25 Jan
'04
7:28 p.m.
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Jim Davis wrote:
I consider $3,000 a very good price for an 8/S. It's got a very
interesting architecture (serial), was considered the "cheap-o" PDP-8, not
many (relatively) were sold and thus it is probably as rare, if not more
so, as/than the "straight" 8.
I always thought that the straight-8 was the gold standard for
collectable 8's. I never considered
production quantities for the 8/S. I remember that it was derided by
most everybody in the
community as being a cheap little substitute for a real 8 when it came
out, My mistake!
Jim Davis. ;-)
Alchemy lives, DEC pdp8/S turns from shit to gold.
Have any
straight-8s changed hands on Ebay? I know an 8/S went
for $3000. I've often claimed that my straight-8 is worth that much
to those who are inclinced to think of it as "old junk", but that is based
on not much more than the fact that I would personally pay that much
for the one I have if I didn't own it already and it were offered to me.
$3000 for an "8/S"?!?!, you have to be kidding? Did it include a lot of
equipment?