Spending $$$ on classic hardware (was Re: lisadraw) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

8 Nov 2006

On 11/9/06, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
...

 In article <20061108022926.45215.qmail at web61017.mail.yahoo.com>,
     Chris M <chrism3667 at yahoo.com>  writes:

  --- Richard <legalize at xmission.com>
wrote:

  Guilty as charged, Sir!  And by definition, that
 takes me out of the
 category of the lowly user :-). 
  A full confession is in order. 
 Um, let's see...  $350 for a Beehive terminal.
 $1200 for a lot of Tektronix terminals :-)
 $500 for a PDP-11/03 w/peripherals

 I think those are the only ones where I broke the $200 barrier. 
$600 for an RL8A in the mid '80s, $400 for a KT24 (to run 2BSD), over
$1000 for a PDP-8/S, $800 for a SPARC1 in the early 90s...

Guilty, guilty, guilty.

At least the SPARC was an investment in my future (my SPARC experience
was directly responsible for getting me my first trip to the South
Pole in 1996).  The others were just toys.

-ethan