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

[Tony Duell]

> Size is probably a big issue, but DEC made some big
> machines and IBM made some small ones, and the DEC
> boxes still seem to get more attention from
> collectors. I think that the relative availability of
> DEC hardware, software, and documentation simply makes

I suspect is is partly the doucmentation. DEC machines of this period 
tended to come with schematics rather than board-swapper guides (which is 
what the IBM service manuals I've seen were). There are thus plenty of 
PDP8, PDP11, etc shematics around.

And IBM used custom parts a lot earlier than DEC. I've not seen a 370, 
but I'd be suprised if it was all off-the-shelf components. Unibus PDP11s 
PDP8s, etc tended to be.

-tony