From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Oct 13 9:55:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from magnesium.net (toxic.magnesium.net [207.154.84.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 85D1E1527E for ; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 09:55:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rbf@magnesium.net) Received: (qmail 42295 invoked by uid 1097); 13 Oct 1999 16:55:50 -0000 Date: 13 Oct 1999 09:55:50 -0700 Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 09:55:50 -0700 From: Ron Farrer To: Mike Smith Cc: Mike Nowlin , freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AXPpci/33 boards Message-ID: <19991013095550.B41676@toxic.magnesium.net> References: <199910131629.JAA00771@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <199910131629.JAA00771@dingo.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- ========================= = Ronald Burnett Farrer = ========================= ------------------------------------ - "mailto:rbf@magnesium.net" - - "http://www.magnesium.net/~rbf/" - ------------------------------------ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! If you let Windows dominate, expect the worst: ! ! "WORLD.SYS is corrupt, reboot UNIVERSE Y/n" ! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ? "How could this [Y2K Bug] be a problem in a country ? ? where we have Intel and Microsoft?" -- Al Gore ? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message