New subject: OT: Re: Is again re: PDP-8 on e-bay

20 Jan 1999

...
 I hate to bring this up again, but has anyone seen the
present bid compared to the
...
 start bid, and where the high bidder is from,
Association for Computing Machinery
...
 (acm.org)?? I must have missed the original thread on
this but it seems a bit high
...
 for a :kind of beat up and working condition
unknown" machine. How "rare" are the
...
 PDP-8's Seems I see a lot of traffic about them
here, they can't be *that* rare.

I'm joebar(a)acm.org. I know, I'm stupid, but it was just sort of an
impulse kind of thing.

I don't know what the start bid was, but I just somehow entered a
bid a little higher than the reserve. I was thinking, "how much did I
spend last year on that dumb P5-166 box", and used that as a
figure, given that the PDP-8 undoubtably has greater long term
value than the P5-166. (Isn't rationalization wonderful? :-)

- Joe