20 Jun
2005
20 Jun
'05
9 p.m.
On 6/20/05, Patrick Finnegan <pat at computer-refuge.org> wrote:
You must mean relative to other PDP-8 stuff, because
I've never seen ANY
pdp-8 boards laying around anywhere, and they would probably fetch a
decent price on eBay..
I've seen lots of DEC boards lying around at resellers' places... Even
10 years ago, there were plenty more PDP-11/VAX customers than PDP-8
customers, that resellers focused on Unibus/Qbus stuff and had to be
pestered a little to look for specific OMNIBUS boards.
As for eBay prices, I've won plenty of auctions in the past year for
$10 PDP-8 parts (KK8E boards, 3rd party core memory, OMNIBUS
peripherals). I don't pay "any" price for this stuff... if it gets
too expensive, I wait. I've seen plenty of boards I've gotten for $10
go for $50-$80 on other auctions. Part of successful eBaying is not
fuelling the demand side of the supply and demand curve.
-ethan