VAX 780 on eBay

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/1/22 1:40 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
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>> On Jan 1, 2022, at 1:12 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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>> This:
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>>     https://www.ebay.com/itm/275084268137
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>> The starting price is expensive, but probably not utterly unreasonable,
>> given that:
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>> - the 780 was the first VAX, and thus historically important
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>> - 780's are incredibly rare; this is the first one I recall seeing for sale
>>   in the classic computer era (versus several -11/70's, /40s, etc)
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>> - this one appears to be reasonably complete; no idea if all the key CPU
>>   boards are included, but it's things like the backplane, etc (all of which
>>   seem to be there) which would be completely impossible to find now - if any
>>   boards _are_ missing, there's at least the _hope_ that they can be located
>>   (780 boards seem to come by every so often on eBait), since people seem to
>>   keep boards, not realizing that without the other bits they are useless
> 
> Interesting, but the argument for why it's not tested is implausible which makes me very suspicious.  I suppose there might be a few American homes that  have only 110 volt power, but I'm hard pressed to think of any I have ever seen, and that includes really old houses.

Having 240 in your house does not necessarily mean you have
240 outlets anywhere and not everyone is capable of doing
their own house wiring.

bill