18 Oct
2004
18 Oct
'04
2:14 p.m.
A pdp-8/S is selling for $3,825. With prices like
this who can afford
computer collecting
since all the 'kid you have free - if you carry it away' computers are
long gone?
Not a suprise - the 8/s is the second rarest of the -8 line (LINC-8 being
the most). They very rarely come on the market. I don't think a LINC-8 has
ever been on the market.
Some machines will never approach that sort of value. Picking on Honeywell
again, I doubt a Level 6 will ever be worth even a tenth of a PDP-8, even
in 50 years.
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org