WOW!!!! $15k DEC PDP-8 CLASSIC MINICOMPUTER SYSTEM DIGITAL PDP8

[William Maddox]

--- William Donzelli <aw288 at osfn.org> wrote:

> On Ebay a few years back, an IBM 650 only hit $5K.
> IBM stuff just doesn't
> have the prestige.

Wow!  Was it complete?  Did anyone save any pictures
from the listing?

> You must know of many PDP-1s that we do not, because
> I can think of
> roughly ten S/360 processors still around. All but
> one are in museums.

To the best of my knowledge, there are only three
PDP-1s still in existence, all of which are in the
collection of the Computer History Museum, although
one is on loan elsewhere.  That would indeed make the
PDP-1 more rare, though it is amazing that so few
S/360s survive.  There are probably bits and pieces of
them still rotting in scrapyards, however. Apparently,
a bunch of them running the FAA ATC system were
retired in recent memory -- as I recall, William
Donzelli knows more about this and may have something
to add.

--Bill