PDP 8i's (10 yes 10 of them)
Guys, Tomorrow I plan to go to the family's house who owns 10 PDP 8i's. I don't want one just so you know, but I am hoping to find a good home for them. I mentioned the VCFed museum, etc. when I visited them last time to see if they'd donate one, but they want $$ for these. I am thinking they may have an inflated idea of their value. Here is a picture set: http://www.vintagecomputer.net/pictures/2016/PDP8i/ The tape units are not DEC, they look like IBMs. They're is not returning my emails so I am going to pay them a visit to see what's what with these machines, on my way to festivus. He lives in the NJ pine barons near my old High school home town, Medford NJ. Anyhoo...if I don't show up at the festivus now you know why. What I need from you all BEFORE Saturday morning 1) Show of hands for anyone interested in a complete PDP 8i system (each is three full sized rack cabinets) 2) What would you pay for such a thing, assuming you had to rent a truck, move the racks into your truck, etc. Look at the condition closely, these ain't new. I want to take these informal offers info to these people to see if I can get him to budge. I am looking for honest offers given the circumstances. Although I don't mind discussing this publicly feel free to send to me serious offers privately via vintagecomputer.net/contact.cfm. I will print the forms and deliver to the owner. If there are less than 10 offers I will discuss some sort "how do we part a few of these out" deals. Bill
So far I have received one offer to pass along. I am going to open this up to CCTALK tomorrow morning if no one else wishes to join in. (even a low ball offer, say $500-750). What I want to do is educate the seller about their true worth. If you're willing to rent a truck and pick one of these up for say $500 and you'd honestly pay that amount and get it, then that's what it's worth to you. You never know if the offer will be accepted but it will help us liberate them all if I can supply a set of data points from our club. I will probably offer $500-1000 depending on the competition. b On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 10:12 AM, william degnan <billdegnan@gmail.com> wrote:
Guys, Tomorrow I plan to go to the family's house who owns 10 PDP 8i's. I don't want one just so you know, but I am hoping to find a good home for them. I mentioned the VCFed museum, etc. when I visited them last time to see if they'd donate one, but they want $$ for these. I am thinking they may have an inflated idea of their value.
Here is a picture set: http://www.vintagecomputer.net/pictures/2016/PDP8i/
The tape units are not DEC, they look like IBMs.
They're is not returning my emails so I am going to pay them a visit to see what's what with these machines, on my way to festivus. He lives in the NJ pine barons near my old High school home town, Medford NJ.
Anyhoo...if I don't show up at the festivus now you know why.
What I need from you all BEFORE Saturday morning 1) Show of hands for anyone interested in a complete PDP 8i system (each is three full sized rack cabinets) 2) What would you pay for such a thing, assuming you had to rent a truck, move the racks into your truck, etc. Look at the condition closely, these ain't new.
I want to take these informal offers info to these people to see if I can get him to budge. I am looking for honest offers given the circumstances.
Although I don't mind discussing this publicly feel free to send to me serious offers privately via vintagecomputer.net/contact.cfm. I will print the forms and deliver to the owner.
If there are less than 10 offers I will discuss some sort "how do we part a few of these out" deals.
Bill
If I hadn’t built a PiDP/8 last year I would be way into this… Thanks for offering it to us though!
On Dec 1, 2016, at 4:09 PM, Systems Glitch via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Don't forget VC Forum!
A great way to end up with a bunch of interest and no cash when it's pay-time! I still have three new factory packs of 96-pin Eurocard connectors due to overstated interest!
Thanks, Jonathan
Don't forget VC Forum!
A great way to end up with a bunch of interest and no cash when it's pay-time! I still have three new factory packs of 96-pin Eurocard connectors due to overstated interest!
Sorry to hear that, but it could happen anywhere. Obviously cctalk has a greater percentage of older big iron users, while VCForum has a greater percentage of younger microcomputer user. I was just pointing out that people should (please) not overlook the Federation's own forum when posting elsewhere. :)
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