11/785 on ebay (2018) - was Re: VAX 780 on eBay

[Mark J. Blair]

> On Jan 2, 2022, at 1:03 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> On 2022-01-02 2:48 p.m., Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
>>     > From: Jonathan Chapman
>>     > Last one that went auction-style on eBay went for $1,178.00
>> When was that?
>> Do you have any details of the machine's config?
>> That's a pretty good deal for a 780 (IMO).
> 
> Someone I know won a '785, Feb 10, 2018, but it went for $1,000 (they bid $1,178.50).

HAHAHA! I love their bid amount. I can remember that I paid $1,575.42 (+tax etc.) for my T368C transmitter, because I was working in the GPS industry at the time, and I bid the GPS L1 frequency in MHz. The second bidder just missed outbidding me, and I got it for my maximum bid.

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