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Date:      Wed, 13 Oct 1999 09:55:50 -0700
From:      Ron Farrer <rbf@toxic.magnesium.net>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: AXPpci/33 boards
Message-ID:  <19991013095550.B41676@toxic.magnesium.net>
In-Reply-To: <199910131629.JAA00771@dingo.cdrom.com>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.05.9910120131010.15101-100000@jason.argos.org> <199910131629.JAA00771@dingo.cdrom.com>

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Mike Smith (mike@smith.net.au) wrote:

> > 
> > I'm doing a bit of "question answering" for a guy who deals in "big"
> > system secondhand equipment (VAX 11/780, for example).  He has about 800
> > AXPpci/33 boards he picked up -- 166 MHz chip, no cache memory.....  Any
> > suggestions on what an asking price should be?  I have no idea on this one
> > -- the only Alpha prices I ever really deal with are for the bigger machines...
> 
> Somewhere between $5 and $10 apiece, realistically.  If he can find a 
> pile of old '486 motherboards and pull the cache chips from them, he 
> could add another $5 or so to the asking price.

I don't know... They seem to go for $50 - 200 on eBay (the latter with the
cache chips). I bought one about 1.5 years ago with 166 MHz, 256K cache,
and 32MB mem for $200 off eBay. They may be slow compaired to newer boxes,
but they sure make good work horses!


JMHO,

Ron
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