17 May
2013
17 May
'13
8:26 p.m.
I do not believe that. But if there are people willing
to pay thousands of
dollars for a TU56 - I am prepared to deliver.
A few TU56s have hit $1000+, but most seem to trade at $500-800 (on
and off Ebay).
Oh, I can provide TU56s and RK05 drives from a heap!
And I am *willing* to
do so. It's not my heap and I forward the money. Therefore it won't be too
cheap. Shipping is a problem to be solved.
You probably should try to get the TU56s into the hands of collectors,
as they are pretty rare devices even in DECland (the US Northeast) -
some US collectors would probably pay the excessive shipping to get
them to this country. RK05s are not nearly as rare, so may not be
worth shipping overseas.
I have seen things you'd never believe. In several
dimensions. Really vast
amounts of stuff (thousands of sqare metres packed!!!). And also acts of
unspeakable destruction. I saw drum memories, RP drives, big tape drives
from the sixties, and many other cool stuff being dismantled and binned by
metal type. Without being able to save very much.
It happens here as well.
The old computers can't be found in every basement
- even in my country. But
if you keep your eyes open, it comes to you. And when you just think that
the time when you found nice hardware for free has ended - something new
drops in from somewhere.
The piles of free stuff (or at least blinkenlights era machines) are
certainly coming to an end, especially with scrap prices so high, but
there still is an amazingly large amount still turning up. Patience
and legwork often can be very rewarding - just be prepared to pay
fairly.
I'm not sarcastic or anything alike. When I say
heap - I mean heap:
http://pdp8.hachti.de/gallery/misc/img_1103_full.jpg
Do you have more pictures of this heap?
--
Will
