11/70 - original or 570 model more desirable?

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 12:56 PM Glen Slick via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 7:49 PM Bill Degnan via cctech
> <cctech at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> >
> > Random question
> > would you prefer having, if you had to pick only one, the original PDP
> > 11/70 or the newer "blue cabinets" PDP 11/70, assuming both were complete
> > configurations with racks of storage etc as they would have been sold,
> more
> > or less.
>
> Random question:
> Would you have bought this one if it were maroon instead of blue?
>
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/DEC-PDP-11-70-Datasystem-570-/113553953503?nordt=true&orig_cvip=true


As-is for $10K seems a little bit steep for a starting bid.  But I haven't
tried to buy an 11/70 recently, so maybe it's reasonable?

Pat