Thinking about acquiring PDP stuff

Anything DEC early 70's is going to be fairly expensive, alas. Only once one gets to QBUS -11's does the price come down. I would not recommend this route. Those machines are a lot of bits and pieces, and if you buy a few, unless you're incredibly lucky, it will take forever for the rest of them to show up. There will be a few things that just never show. (Even when buying a 'complete' system, one will often find that it has been robbed of a few critical components, probably cannabilized to keep another machine running BITD.) There might be a rare exception (I see the guys in Mahwah selling a PDP-8 chassis, and also a front panel with switches, and it _might_ be possible to round up all the boards - but that's more like the exception than the rule.) Noel