From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Oct 13 19:18:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A472314CFF for ; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 19:18:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA64376; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 22:16:44 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 22:16:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Ron Farrer Cc: Mike Smith , Mike Nowlin , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AXPpci/33 boards In-Reply-To: <19991013095550.B41676@toxic.magnesium.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 13 Oct 1999, Ron Farrer wrote: > 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! Umm, no, the ones going for those better prices are the PC164nn boards, which support better CPUs and are faster. Mike's right. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C programming, Electronics, 213 Lakeside Dr. Apt. T-1 | communications, and signal processing. Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic.mat.net: FreeBSD-current(i386) and (301) 220-2114 | jaunt.mat.net : FreeBSD-current(Alpha) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message