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

[Teo Zenios]

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


> On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Scott Stevens wrote:
>
> > Believe me, a day will probably come when people who are in their
> > twenties now will wax nostalgic on that old Leading Edge or Packard Bell
> > clone they started out on as a little kid, and want one just like it.
> > And most of them will have been melted down.
>
> I've got each in my collection ;)
>
> I'm not saying they're rare or anything, but I've hardly seen any 286 or
> 386 computers come through my warehouse in the past few months.  The
> trickle has definitely slowed down.  If you think you might have a need
> for a 286 or 386 in the future, you should probably be wanting to find a
> nice representative system right around now.
>
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> Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer
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Leading Edge and Packard Bells always sucked (my first PC was a new 286
Packard Bell). I did always want a 386 Gateway desktop case, those looked
nice. The high end Northgates and Everex machines looked nice (could be 486
era).



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