9 Jan
2022
9 Jan
'22
8:38 a.m.
On 1/9/22 8:17 AM, P Gebhardt via cctalk wrote:
Right, you can run an 11/70 from a regular wall socket, but
the /780 needs 3-phase, and consumes a LOT more power.? I
think you could squeeze a usable 11/70 into a single rack
with modern peripherals, but No WAY for a /780.? But, yes,
I'm also surprised it didn't sell.
Jon
I'm rather
puzzled that an -11/70 will sell for north of $10K, while a /780
can't fetch $5K. I can only guess that PDP-11'S are seen as more important in
the collector world (even though the BSD work, which had such a huge impact on
UNIX, which has now - in the form of Linux - taken over the world, was
centered on the VAX).
Noel, maybethis is also related to the bare size of an
11/780 (any peripherals excluded)