29 Nov
2007
29 Nov
'07
1:48 p.m.
On Thursday 29 November 2007, Richard wrote:
Looks like noone else wanted to pay that much either.
I don't know
where they came up with a price like $1700 for 4 11/04s ($425 ea?),
particularly since there are no peripherals and working state is
unknown and you can't preview in person. I haven't been tracking
11/0x prices on ebay, but a couple years back I bought an 11/03
w/dual RL01s, LA-120, VT-100, manuals, paper for LA-120, etc. all for
$500, so $425 ea. for 11/04s in an unknown state seems a little high.
An 11/04 is somewhat more desirable of a machine than the 11/03 is (it's
UNIBUS instead of QBUS), but you still lack the MMU, and only have a
calculator-keypad frontpanel instead of a full lights and toggles
frontpane, and it's relatively slow. So, it's not generally all that
desirable to people, compared to something like an 11/83, or even an
11/10, or 11/34.
Of course, who knows if they even had any board in them still.
I'd guess that if they were actually complete, and mostly working (but
without any interesting I/O boards), $150-$250 ea wouldn't be too far
out of line. I/O boards could dramatically raise the value of the
system, though... eg, if there were a SCSI controller or something in
the systems.
Pat
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