Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:12:24 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Ron Farrer <rbf@toxic.magnesium.net> Cc: Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AXPpci/33 boards Message-ID: <199910132012.NAA00762@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Oct 1999 09:55:50 PDT." <19991013095550.B41676@toxic.magnesium.net>
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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! In one-off quantities, sure. He has 800 of them though, which is going to utterly saturate any market. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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