6 Jul
2005
6 Jul
'05
8:19 p.m.
On 7/6/05, Tom Jennings <tomj at wps.com> wrote:
A lot of DEC stuff went to universities, where there
was a lot of
hands-on in the guts (how many 360's were moded by students and
faculty?), departmental hand-me-down leading to surplus.
I myself have picked up a DECmate I, a PDP-8/a, a PDP-11/34, and
several PDP-11/03s from Ohio State surplus over the years. VAXen and
other PDP-11s I've gotten from scrap from local and not-so-local
businesses.
My experience of what's on the street is that I see 20+ DEC machines
for each IBM machine, and even then, it's always the smaller IBM boxes
like S/34s, S/36s and AS/400s.
I'm sure lease vs purchase, aided by a once-robust DEC third-party
reseller community have a lot to do with the state of things.
-ethan