From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Oct 13 13:22:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EA51152C9 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:22:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA00762; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:12:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199910132012.NAA00762@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Ron Farrer Cc: Mike Nowlin , freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AXPpci/33 boards In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 13 Oct 1999 09:55:50 PDT." <19991013095550.B41676@toxic.magnesium.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:12:24 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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! 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