From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Oct 13 10:15: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from eta.ghs.com (eta.ghs.com [208.8.104.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20AEF150E7 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 10:14:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ross@teraflop.com) Received: [from random.teraflop.com (random.teraflop.com [192.67.158.207]) by eta.ghs.com (eta-antispam 0.2) with ESMTP id KAA26899; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 10:13:03 -0700 (PDT)] Received: (from ross@localhost) by random.teraflop.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA08530; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 10:13:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 10:13:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Ross Harvey Message-Id: <199910131713.KAA08530@random.teraflop.com> To: mike@argos.org, mike@smith.net.au Subject: Re: AXPpci/33 boards Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > From: Mike Smith > > > [ someone else ] > > > > 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. Heh, yah, I don't think I would take one for free. If someone gave you a 386 or 486 system board at no charge, would you spend your time assembling it with an otherwise perfectly good RAM bank, power supply, box, network and peripheral cards, maybe a CD ... all those nuts and bolts ... just to get a box so slow it's hard to believe? The Multia with its snazzy packaging and integrated peripherals has some tiny value. I think the other LCA systems just have "dumpster" written all over them. ross.harvey@computer.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message