I posted a couple of days ago with questions concerning the value of, and locating info for, a PDP11/93, for which I'm negotiating . I got some good responses on-list, and a couple of very helpful suggestions off-list. And today, one enterprising soul, a long-standing list subscriber, found MDR's website from my email address. He both emailed and called my boss today trying to buy the machine out from under me.

Y'all, I posted a couple of days ago with questions concerning the value of, and locating info for, a PDP11/93, for which I'm negotiating . I got some good responses on-list, and a couple of very helpful suggestions off-list. And today, one enterprising soul, a long-standing list subscriber, found MDR's website from my email address. He both emailed and called my boss today trying to buy the machine out from under me. His statement to Mark, that he thought I was trying to cheat my company of fair value, would have rung a lot less false had he (A) Done me the courtesy of trying to clarify the situation with me first, (B) Not also expressed what Mark called "near-rabid" interest in owning the machine himself, and (C) Not asked Mark specifically to refrain from telling me about it. Fortunately for me, Mark Rodriguez was my friend long before he became my boss. For the record, my employer knows that some of what I pull out of the pile is for my collection, and some gets sold. He rather expects that I make a profit. As long as he gets more than the scrappers pay, he feels that he's ahead. As far as the idea that I should tell *any* prospective seller what I might charge for the item I'm buying, *if* I resell it, that's just ridiculous. Mark's impression, which I trust, was NOT that this person was trying to protect MDR from being cheated. Mark believes that it was an outright attempt to make sure that the caller got first crack at a PDP11/93. I think that truly sucks. If this is the way we are, I'll be unsubscribing damn soon. And yes, I know who it was. Doc