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

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On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, William Donzelli wrote:

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

An IBM 650 showed up on eBay?  And it sold for only $5K??

Wow.

> 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.

The Computer History Museum has three PDP-1's (including the original
prototype).  I thought there was one at a university in the Netherlands,
but I can't find a reference currently.

> > I'd be interested in knowing of any complete IBM 360's out in the wild
> > (i.e. not already in museums).
>
> The only one I know of is the ex-Stumf model 22 processor, and I do not
> know where that went.

Thanks for the info.  I think you're more right than me about the 360s.
For some reason, people tend to pay more attention to DEC stuff.  And I
think the size issue, as you explained, is probably the key reason why.

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