5 Jul
2005
5 Jul
'05
11:19 p.m.
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
This is my point. Pat doesn't think an IBM 360 would sell for, say, as
much as $50K. I agree with him that it may not attract the same sort of
frenzy that a PDP-1 would (it's a different dynamic with IBM old iron
collectors) but considering that they are probably more rare than PDP-1's
(which is ironic considering the IBM 360 sold in the thousands(?) and the
PDP-1 had a run of 50) if one did show up, and it was as complete the
recent PDP-8 sale, then there would be a bidding frenzy like you wouldn't
believe.
I suspected the PDP-8 could fetch as high as $25K, and I still think this
is a valid number. Bill Maddox actually got one hell of a deal. A PDP-1
equipped in an equivalent manner would surely fetch at least $25K, and so
would the equivalent IBM 360 system (maybe a decked out 360/20).
I'd be interested in knowing of any complete IBM 360's out in the wild
(i.e. not already in museums). From what I know, there aren't many, if
any (at least as yet undiscovered) so I'd like to be corrected if I'm
ignorant.
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How many PDP-1's have you seen around? How many IBM 360's? There are way
more PDP-1's known to still exist than IBM 360's, and there's only a
handful of PDP-1's left. The 360 also has a huge following of historical
nuts.
Hi Sellam
You have to remember, that machine was in the lease
days of IBM. They took back their old machines and
flattened them in a wreaking yard down at Santa Maria.
I used to look for things like blocks of core memory
there.