9 Jun
2016
9 Jun
'16
11:01 a.m.
On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 3:48 AM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:
If anyone is desperate for VAX-11/780 parts, let me know -- a friend of
mine recently came into a load of them. If it can help someone bring a
/780 back to life, he'd be up for working something out...
- Josh
From: Devin
Davison
well there goes my plan of trying to keep it
under the radar.
Sorry, I didn't mean to upset your plan (and you); I just didn't know if
anyone was watching for VAX-11/780 parts, they come by so rarely.
We have discussed this topic before, but let me recapitulate one point
about
pricing and valuations: if we want to stop this stuff being scrapped, we
need
to make sure the prices realized are well above scrap. This will have
several
consequences:
i) If people only get low (scrap-region) prices, why go to all the
bother/hassle of listing things on auction sites; just proceeed directly to
'Go'. ii) Hopefully, if values are non-trivial, the word will get around,
and
people who have this stuff will go to the effort to list it, instead of
leaving it to moulder, etc.
Yes, I understand that will make this a more expensive hobby, but
TANSTAAFL.
YMMV.
Noel