24 Oct
2001
24 Oct
'01
6:04 a.m.
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, John Allain wrote:
I take exception to Heinz' proclamation that it is "certainly" worth that
much. I disagree with his value. Yes, this pricing is all relative and
subjective.
> Now a
PDP-1 would certainly be worth 100KUS$,
..to a collector who had US$100K to throw away
and
absolutely HAS to have the first PDP-1...
Worth, Costs, Is Valued at... all highly relativistic concepts
don't you think? What about history? My book says that only 50
PDP-1's were produced.
Almost certainly 50%++ were scrapped. Anybody know where all the
PDP-1's are? I'd like to see one (or more).
Maybe Heinz wants to pay US$100K for a PDP-1, but I don't think the rarity
and demand for this system justifies such a value.
BTW, on thread. A good clean runnung PDP-11 with SW
and docs can
fetch over $4K, to the original question.
Sounds reasonable to me, but it also depends highly on the particular
model.
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