Understatement of the year. :) I almost feel bad for the guy who sold it, you can see on his About Me page that he is a retired grandfather who likes antiques, but I guess if you don't research an item before you sell it, that is the price you pay.... -- Thanks, Torquil MacCorkle, III Lexington, Virginia

Not sure what the going price for the hardware is worth, but just the PDP-8 doc's that were included are worth more than what he got out of it. My guess is that it will be back up on eBay as soon as the buyer gets it, though it will probably be split up into multiple parts, if not individual components :^( Zane -- -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |

maybe not! perhaps the buyer will keep it and cherish it! .......opps! nope looks like the buyer is in the habit of selling computer stuff.... heh heh I guess the early whore gets the worm! would have been a system we would have put up in a nice display area.... damn! it even had the real front panel on it! Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC Please check our web site at http://www.smecc.org to see other engineering fields, communications and computation stuff we buy, and by all means when in Arizona drop in and see us. address: coury house / smecc 5802 w palmaire ave glendale az 85301 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh(a)aracnet.com> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 6:47 PM Subject: Re: Somebody just got a steal - PDP8a and ASR33