[Info-vax] DEC VAX 8650

[Scott Dorsey]

Johnny Billquist  <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>On 2023-02-09 02:43, Fernando Colon Osorio wrote:
>> On Tuesday, February 14, 1995 at 1:20:08 PM UTC-5, John Slauson wrote:
>>> I have 21 (yes, twenty-one) VAX 8650s to sell. The machines are
>>> new and still in the original DEC boxes. Can anyone help me
>>> determine what a reasonable price for these would be?
>> I know your post was ions ago. However, do you have any left. I will be interested in purchaing one.
>
>Almost 30 years. And I doubt the poster was even correct. A VAX8650 
>isn't exactly just in "a box". The machine is *big*. If you had 21 of 
>them, you'd need some serious storage.

If the customer with them is who I think it was, they probably did have
some serious storage.

But Compuserve is long gone and this appears to be a drive-by because
Mr. Slauson doesn't seem to have posted anything else much to Usenet.

I suspect this is the Slauson who later went on to found Adaptick and 
became a big-name quantitative analyist on wall street.

>Price of the hardware might be an interesting question, but the real big 
>one is location. Shipping of one might turn out to be very expensive...

There were a lot of things available thirty years ago that are no longer
around.  Thirty years ago, I had hair!
--scott
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