11 Mar
2014
11 Mar
'14
12:04 p.m.
A VAXstation just sold on eBay for $2,021.51.
I may be off my rocker, but that seems a bit high... :)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/DEC-Vaxstation-4000-90-VS49K-AB-CPU-KA49-May-Work-P…
11 Mar
11 Mar
12:19 p.m.
A VAXstation just sold on eBay for $2,021.51.
I may be off my rocker, but that seems a bit high... :)
For a brief moment, I thought that was the same model as one I basically
gave away a couple years ago. I brushed the sweat off my brow when research
proved otherwise. But yeah, what would make that work over $2K?
12:27 p.m.
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 12:19 PM, James <james at slor.net> wrote:
Is that a VAXstation 4000 M90A? The only faster VAXstation being the
4000 M96? Maybe there is an installed base somewhere for which paying
that price for an exact model replacement is cheaper than qualifying
other alternatives?
The other one he sold just a few days ago for only ~$1600 must have
been a bargain:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/310865141255
A VAXstation just sold on eBay for $2,021.51.
I may be off my rocker, but that seems a bit high... :)
For a brief moment, I thought that was the same model as one I basically
gave away a couple years ago. I brushed the sweat off my brow when research
proved otherwise. But yeah, what would make that work over $2K? 
1:15 p.m.
On Mar 11, 2014, at 3:27 PM, Glen Slick <glen.slick at gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 12:19 PM, James <james at
slor.net> wrote:
Is that a VAXstation 4000 M90A? The only faster VAXstation being the
4000 M96? Maybe there is an installed base somewhere for which paying
that price for an exact model replacement is cheaper than qualifying
other alternatives?
That would be a DoD contract, where not buying the exact item on the
list could get you fired. Quite likely the only folks who could
properly qualify a replacement (surely Charon-VAX, which emulates
many times faster than a 4000/96, would do the trick unless there's
special hardware) are out of the business at this point.
Don't expect military contracts to operate with any sense of logic.
The people managing the contracts and procuring the parts know about
as much about a VS4000/90 as I know about porcupine mating rituals
(not much, but I suspect they're generally unpleasant).
- Dave
A VAXstation just sold on eBay for $2,021.51.
I may be off my rocker, but that seems a bit high... :)
For a brief moment, I thought that was the same model as one I basically
gave away a couple years ago. I brushed the sweat off my brow when research
proved otherwise. But yeah, what would make that work over $2K? 
12:19 p.m.
On Tue, 11 Mar 2014, Benjamin Huntsman wrote:
A VAXstation just sold on eBay for $2,021.51.
I may be off my rocker, but that seems a bit high... :)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/DEC-Vaxstation-4000-90-VS49K-AB-CPU-KA49-May-Work-P…
That's less than it was new.
And, they're not making very many of them, anymore.
2:10 p.m.
On 03/11/2014 03:19 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Tue, 11 Mar 2014, Benjamin Huntsman wrote:
Makes me wonder what the 6 Vaxserver3100s and the two 3100-m86/gpx are
worth...
Nah, selling them would breakup the LAVC VAXcluster.
Allison
A VAXstation just sold on eBay for $2,021.51.
I may be off my rocker, but that seems a bit high... :)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/DEC-Vaxstation-4000-90-VS49K-AB-CPU-KA49-May-Work-P…
That's less than it was new.
And, they're not making very many of them, anymore.
12 Mar
12 Mar
5:35 a.m.
On 11 March 2014 21:10, allison <ajp166 at verizon.net> wrote:
Makes me wonder what the 6 Vaxserver3100s and the two
3100-m86/gpx are
worth...
Yeah, me too! I just gave 2 3100s to listmember St?phane Tsacas for
free, and am donating a 4000/60 to the OpenBSD Project for free as
well!
What have I *done?!* O_O
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6:28 a.m.
You know it is possible that some small company
someplace is using one of these for pay and inventory.
Buying one at this price for spare parts is not
that big a deal.
All it takes is a couple bidders.
Dwight
6:38 a.m.
Not to trump the current pricing absurdity outrage, but..
Did you all miss the ePay auction, about 6-7 weeks ago, where an Intel MDS
+keyboard+ sold for like USD $450.00 ??
Heck, they can have my whole MDS for that, if they want to pick it up!! ;-)
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
On 11 March 2014 21:10, allison <ajp166 at
verizon.net> wrote:
Makes me wonder what the 6 Vaxserver3100s and the
two 3100-m86/gpx are
worth...
Yeah, me too! I just gave 2 3100s to listmember St?phane Tsacas for
free, and am donating a 4000/60 to the OpenBSD Project for free as
well!
What have I *done?!* O_O
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11 Mar
11 Mar
6:57 p.m.
I have two of these, I'll even offer them for half of what that ebay went for ;)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 12:19:55 -0700
From: cisin at xenosoft.com
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: You have got to be kidding me
On Tue, 11 Mar 2014, Benjamin Huntsman wrote:
A VAXstation just sold on eBay for $2,021.51.
I may be off my rocker, but that seems a bit high... :)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/DEC-Vaxstation-4000-90-VS49K-AB-CPU-KA49-May-Work-P…
That's less than it was new.
And, they're not making very many of them, anymore.
12:23 p.m.
On Mar 11, 2014, at 3:04 PM, Benjamin Huntsman <BHuntsman at mail2.cu-portland.edu>
wrote:
A VAXstation just sold on eBay for $2,021.51.
I may be off my rocker, but that seems a bit high... :)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/DEC-Vaxstation-4000-90-VS49K-AB-CPU-KA49-May-Work-P…
This has been bandied about on this list before. The 4000/90 is an item
on some important US DoD contract, so that specific model goes for a
premium because resellers know they pretty much have a guaranteed sale
for it. It's a shame for the rest of us, since the 4000/90 is a pretty
nice machine, but you can get a machine with equivalent performance in
the VAX4000/600+ range (those are the deskside towers, not to be confused
with VS4000). If you know where to look (not eBay), you can often get
those a LOT cheaper.
VS4000/96 machines go for about twice what the 4000/90 machines do on
eBay.
- Dave
12:50 p.m.
On Tue, 11 Mar 2014, David Riley wrote:
On Mar 11, 2014, at 3:04 PM, Benjamin Huntsman
<BHuntsman at mail2.cu-portland.edu> wrote:
And my VS4000/60 was $150!
A VAXstation just sold on eBay for $2,021.51.
I may be off my rocker, but that seems a bit high... :)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/DEC-Vaxstation-4000-90-VS49K-AB-CPU-KA49-May-Work-P…
VS4000/96 machines go for about twice what the 4000/90 machines do on
eBay.
- Dave
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12:51 p.m.
On 3/11/2014 12:23 PM, David Riley wrote:
On Mar 11, 2014, at 3:04 PM, Benjamin Huntsman
<BHuntsman at mail2.cu-portland.edu> wrote:
I recall a system like this (shape, not sure what it was) being the
console of a large Vax Mainframe, when I visited a site that was making
a plug compatable storage controller.
The mainframe was very high performance and ran the storage tests I was
observing so much faster than the normal Dec hardware the system was
idling during the benchmarks, and the storage part was over way faster.
I think the systems in question had some sort of other Dec system in the
storage raid controller, and the CMD system that I was observing had all
hardware out to the disks, not much of a contest.
If one had a contract which needed these for that purpose, they would be
valuable indeed.
A VAXstation just sold on eBay for $2,021.51.
I may be off my rocker, but that seems a bit high... :)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/DEC-Vaxstation-4000-90-VS49K-AB-CPU-KA49-May-Work-P…
This has been bandied about on this list before. The 4000/90 is an item
on some important US DoD contract, so that specific model goes for a
premium because resellers know they pretty much have a guaranteed sale
for it. It's a shame for the rest of us, since the 4000/90 is a pretty
nice machine, but you can get a machine with equivalent performance in
the VAX4000/600+ range (those are the deskside towers, not to be confused
with VS4000). If you know where to look (not eBay), you can often get
those a LOT cheaper.
VS4000/96 machines go for about twice what the 4000/90 machines do on
eBay.
- Dave
12:58 p.m.
On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 19:04:31 +0000
Benjamin Huntsman <BHuntsman at mail2.cu-portland.edu>, w swoim raporcie o post?pach
w nauce magii przyja?ni, pisze:
A VAXstation just sold on eBay for $2,021.51.
I may be off my rocker, but that seems a bit high... :)
A 2004(?) AmigaOne is being sold for almost $1000 now on a polish Amiga discussion board.
(-)
Ola Hughson
14 Mar
14 Mar
9:48 a.m.
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 08:58:42PM +0100, Ola Hughson wrote:
[...]
A 2004(?) AmigaOne is being sold for almost $1000 now
on a polish Amiga
discussion board.
I am amazed that they received a working one in the first place.
I ordered one from Eyetech in December 2002, and a DOA unit finally turned up
in May 2003. They messed me around on the return, and I eventually had to drag
Eyetech through the courts to get my money back.
My copy of the court paperwork tells me I paid ?566.66, which is about
?750/$1250 in 2014 money. So even if I had eventually extracted a working unit
out of Eyetech, I'd still be down on the deal!
11:04 a.m.
Doesn't count. Amiga collectors are a little nutty to begin with. (running
and ducking)
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Ola Hughson <f.helyanvy at gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 19:04:31 +0000
Benjamin Huntsman <BHuntsman at mail2.cu-portland.edu>, w swoim raporcie o
post?pach w nauce magii przyja?ni, pisze:
A VAXstation just sold on eBay for $2,021.51.
I may be off my rocker, but that seems a bit high... :)
A 2004(?) AmigaOne is being sold for almost $1000 now on a polish Amiga
discussion board.
(-)
Ola Hughson
16 Mar
16 Mar
3:43 a.m.
On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 13:04:44 -0500
Geoffrey Oltmans <oltmansg at gmail.com>, w swoim raporcie o post?pach w nauce magii
przyja?ni, pisze:
Doesn't count. Amiga collectors are a little nutty
to begin with. (running
and ducking)
Hey, I consider myself an 'Amiga collector', yet i would
rather kill myself, than sell an amiga for more than $100.
(-)
Ola Hughson
11 Mar
11 Mar
4:06 p.m.
On 3/11/2014 3:04 PM, Benjamin Huntsman wrote:
A VAXstation just sold on eBay for $2,021.51.
I may be off my rocker, but that seems a bit high... :)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/DEC-Vaxstation-4000-90-VS49K-AB-CPU-KA49-May-Work-P…
Then you wouldn't want to look at that MicroVAX 3100 M98...
<http://www.ebay.com/itm/49ZCM-A9-DEC-MICROVAX-3100-98-/301103893920> :D
Note that's the asking price. They might get it. Might not. Model
98's are rare (and fast for a VAX).
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