Sun3 valuations?

On 1/22/2018 3:32 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: I did mention mine came free. I also did sell my systems in the late 80s for some amount. I think the answer will be relative to who is collecting them and their budget. At least on this list that didn't seem to be many.. As I said I'd be glad to help you make yours have value if you want my system, or the tapes. Al said he was open to offers for his system, which, by the way sounds like the 4/xxx system I had. A historical note on my system, might have been true of Al's depending on history too, Hamilton pre merger had a group which bought some of these systems, which were in my case in a 6' cabinet similar to the Dec H960 in size, and used them as systems for doing pal and other utility work. At out local Hamilton office in Orange County, where mine came from, they would let people come in and get accounts and use them for whatever they needed, usually by convincing the two local guys that you had something that would result in Hamilton selling some product. As to value, I'd say with the tape, my system should be worth a couple hundred. No disks, but should have SCSI controller. The tapes being the thing adding value. That is with it in the state of a project machine. Add in the monitors and have it restored, I'd say 1000 to 1500 would be a reasonable asking price. Worth noting my 3/260 has a monochrome graphics port, so one would have a very large and power hungry Sunos 3 or Sunos 4 graphics station. I think I have the Hitachi monitors that went with the system. Thanks Jim