[Info-vax] Price/Value of Used VAX 4000/700

[Dennis Boone]

 > A local university has recently replaced a VAX 4000/700 with an Itanium 
 > server (still running OpenVMS). I'd like to make some sort of an offer
 > for the old VAX, just to keep it from going to scrap, but I've searched
 > the internet and can't find any kind of example prices. I'm thinking no 
 > more than a couple of hundred dollars if that much but I'd like to have 
 > some sort of evidence to show that's the going price. None on ebay now
 > so it's no help.

Asking prices for 4000/700 CPU sets are fairly high -- hundreds
of dollars.  Dunno if any sell at those prices.  Prices for full
systems are usually lower due to the cost of shipping.

But the school doesn't necessarily know any of that. :)

De