DEC

At 06:47 PM 10/19/99 +0001, Hans wrote: Can't know without knowing the peripherals. Generally $500 for a working Omnibus '8 is a "fair" price. The E-bay price is a bit higher than that :-) One that has a working DECTape drive (the smallish spools of tape that whoosh back and forth) is easily worth $1,000 in pretty much any market. (those DECTapes are _hard_ to find). If it comes with the DEC LT33 (Teletype ASR-33 modified by DEC) then it is worth and extra $300 or so. Now having said all that, here is the caveats: 1) The 8/F and 8/M were by far the most common OMNIBUS '8s so come out at the low end of the scale (8/Es are more valuable and earlier 8's like the /I, and /L are better still.) 2) If the think doesn't have the programmers front panel it will be worth significantly _less_ since the blinkenlights are the "cool" part. 3) If it has been beat up to the point where it can't be restored, then that would be cause for a de-rating of the value as well. 4) If it has non-DEC stuff in it (like the memory is all 3rd party non-DEC MOS RAM) then that would negatively affect the price. (My opinion of course ... YMMV) --Chuck