Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 22:16:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> To: Ron Farrer <rbf@toxic.magnesium.net> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AXPpci/33 boards Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910132215500.46069-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <19991013095550.B41676@toxic.magnesium.net>
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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
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