6 Jul
2005
6 Jul
'05
4:34 a.m.
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, William Donzelli wrote:
Thanks for the info. I think you're more right than me about the 360s.
For some reason, people tend to pay more attention to DEC stuff. And I
think the size issue, as you explained, is probably the key reason why.
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On Ebay a few years back, an IBM 650 only hit $5K. IBM
stuff just doesn't
have the prestige.
An IBM 650 showed up on eBay? And it sold for only $5K??
Wow.
You must know of many PDP-1s that we do not, because I
can think of
roughly ten S/360 processors still around. All but one are in museums.
The Computer History Museum has three PDP-1's (including the original
prototype). I thought there was one at a university in the Netherlands,
but I can't find a reference currently.
I'd be
interested in knowing of any complete IBM 360's out in the wild
(i.e. not already in museums).
The only one I know of is the ex-Stumf model 22 processor, and I do not
know where that went.