value of classic DEC machines? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

24 Oct 2001

My understand of PDP-1s is that if there are 10 left it's a lot.
the only two I know of was the BCM Machine and one up in 
Whitehorse {or was it Yellowknife} running Log/wood mill 
accounting system.

Allison

-----Original Message-----
From: John Allain &lt;allain(a)panix.com&gt;
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org &lt;classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org&gt;
Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: value of classic DEC machines?

...
  > Now a
PDP-1 would certainly be worth 100KUS$, 
 ..to a collector who had US$100K to throw away
and
 absolutely HAS to have the first PDP-1... 
Worth, Costs, Is Valued at...  all highly relativistic concepts
don't you think?

What about history?  My book says that only 50 PDP-1's
were produced.  Almost certainly 50%++ were scrapped.
Anybody know where all the PDP-1's are?  I'd like to see 
one (or more).

John A.

BTW, on thread.  A good clean runnung PDP-11 with SW 
and docs can fetch over $4K, to the original question.

John A.