[Info-vax] Alphaserver DS10s for sale

[Scott Dorsey]

Carl Friedberg  <frida.fried at gmail.com> wrote:
>Ten years ago I picked up a bunch of AlphaServer RX2600's, all of
>which eventually were given away, except for 1, which is now dead
>(presumably I could open it up and change some capacitors and maybe
>resurrect). All of those 2600's were in the $100 to $300 USD price
>range, including shipping (maybe in those days UPS was cheaper than it
>is today). There's nothing cheap today (mostly). Sellers are charging
>more because they can, I believe. Oh well, it's all for fun  anyway.
>Disks in those boxes are on sleds, which I used to have lying around;
>not any more. But any SCSI disk would do just fine, in my experience;
>I had a bunch of 72 GB and 300 Gb lying around. Nothing left now.

That is how the market is.  When something first becomes obsolete, everyone
throws them away and you can get them for a song.  As time goes by, fewer
of them exist because so many have been thrown away, and although the demand 
doesn't increase much, it doesn't go away and the prices go up because the 
supply is so much smaller.  Sometimes after a while, the demand drops to be 
below the small supply, and then prices drop.  But sometimes it becomes a 
valuable historical artifact and then the sky is the limit for the prices.

I am seeing equipment that I tossed into dumpsters in the seventies selling
for tens of thousands of dollars now.  I should have kept more junk than 
I did.
--scott

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