VAX 780 on eBay

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Sun Jan 9 04:56:16 CST 2022


    > This:
    >     https://www.ebay.com/itm/275084268137
    > ...
    > Anyway I fully expect it to go ... for a _lot_ more than the opening price.

Much to my surprise, it didn't sell at all (although a number of other lots,
likely from this machine, did.)

I'm rather puzzled that an -11/70 will sell for north of $10K, while a /780
can't fetch $5K. I can only guess that PDP-11'S are seen as more important in
the collector world (even though the BSD work, which had such a huge impact on
UNIX, which has now - in the form of Linux - taken over the world, was
centered on the VAX).

	  Noel



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