How uncommon are DEC racks these days

[Guy Sotomayor]

Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> Fine, I have to disagree with this sorting a bit.
>
> On Wednesday 26 December 2007 08:32, Allison wrote:
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>> You can buy or find these fairly cheap
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>> PDP-11 Unibus
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> Not cheap, unless you find someone who hasn't discovered ebay yet.
>   

I have some 11/44's and 11/84's that can go fairly cheap (well as far as 
unibus system go).  I also have 11/05's and 11/10's that depending upon 
configurations start at ~$500.

I also have a "real" 11/83 (ie not an 11/53 that was upgraded) that can 
go for ~250 or so.
>   
>> PDP-8[E,F,M,a] omnibus
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> Ditto,
>
>   
>> Good luck!
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>> VAX (78x series, )
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>
> Maybe harder to find, but also relatively cheap if you do.  The last two 
> that I got from ebay were $60 (three years ago) and $200 (this year), 
> respectively.  I haven't seen ANY -8 go for less than about $1500, and 
> any Unibus-11 is going to be well over $200, with toggles, probably no 
> less than $800 for a /5 or /10, or $1k+ for anything that has an MMU 
> (and speed).
>
> Though, I know there's at least one person on the list (though not 
> geographically near you) who has 11/780s that they told me that they 
> want to part with.  I don't want to post who, just in case. :)
>   

I also have some 11/780, 11/780-5 and 11/785 that we can talk about.  :-)

I'm in San Jose California.

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TTFN - Guy