That's about 155VUPs. The memory and CIXCD are high-cost options, even on the used market. The 7650 itself is worth about $8000 (including the XMI and BI). Add another $300 for the CIXCD (should be a -AC for the 7000 series), and $1000 for the DEMFA (if the FDDI controller is XMI). The memory is worth about $2000 (based on what a 2GB card for the 7000 series cost). That brings a total of about $11300, which all packaged should be about an even $11000. Of course, if you are getting this from a place that is dumping it and not a reseller, you might be able to get it for next to nothing, if they don't know what they have. -- Eric Dittman dittman(a)dittman.net Check out the DEC Enthusiasts Club at http://www.dittman.net/

On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 03:05:47AM -0500, Julius Sridhar wrote: [VAX 7650] You [censored]! You [censored] son of a [censored]! You [censored][censored]! Man you must be really happy. ;-) Or like a friend said when he got his HP9000 H70: If I hadn't normal sexual preferences, I wold run around the house mastruating. -- tsch??, Jochen Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/

That was a good price. I don't know what a reseller will pay you for it, since obviously they make their money by paying less for the equipment than they charge. -- Eric Dittman dittman(a)dittman.net Check out the DEC Enthusiasts Club at http://www.dittman.net/

Jerome Fine replies: I have heard that these VAX systems are needed by the Pentagon due the the 9/11 problem - they lost quite a few on that day. So the resellers are trying to fill orders that are being re-sold at much higher than normal prices as compared with a year ago. In general, VMS/VAX systems used by the military can't easily be modified due to the lack of security in the code from M$ systems. So they will be stuck having to replace these systems in the short term and upgrade, when possible, to VMS/Alpha systems to retain the same features. That is not always possible when a program uses VAX hardware in a manner which is hardware specific. Sincerely yours, Jerome Fine

If they only charge $15K for it, you'd better hang onto your wallet, because they'll probably want an extra $10K just to handle it unless they've already got a buyer lined up and willing to pay $25K. Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julius Sridhar" <vance(a)ikickass.org> To: "Eric Dittman" <dittman(a)dittman.net> Cc: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 7:34 AM Subject: Re: How much?

Yeah ... the only time I owned a piece of DEC gear was when I bought a VAX of some sort (780?) that was in a dual-wide ~60" high rack, but was only interested, really, in the rack hardware. It had a CPU, disk controllers, a number of I/O boards, but no disks or memory. I ended up hauling if off for $25. The seller's guys even helped me put it into the truck and tie it down. I'm quite sure that if I'd expressed any interest in the CPU and other stuff, even in the PSU (I think that's what that heavy part with all the fans was) I'd have had to pay quite a bit more. His attitude was that if I didn't take it all, he'd have to charge me more. I eventually decided I couldn't use the racks after all, but, having put them, at great pain, in the basement, I required the guy who bought the "guts" from me to take the racks with him, which didn't seem to bother him at all. Now, this was back in '84 or so, when DEC stuff was still of some interest, commercially, but I suspect that if one seems interested in the sheet metal, the electronics don't mean as much to an auction house trying to clear a building. I've bought brand new spares of Mutlibus boards normally costing $5k or so for $10 when I asked whether the cables or the manuals were available separately. Likewise, I've ended up with powered disk drive boxes with perfectly good drives on board, when all I said I was after was the attached cable. You have to guess at what the seller's attitude is, but it often works out that he'll take a mere pittance for the whole thing if you express an interest in a part that's difficult to extract. Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ethan Dicks" <erd_6502(a)yahoo.com> To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 12:38 PM Subject: Re: How much?

On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Jochen Kunz wrote: Seriously. I'm thinking of selling mine. Peace... Sridhar