[cctalk] Re: PDP-8/L $15,000

[Paul Koning via cctalk]

> On Aug 29, 2023, at 8:46 AM, Chris Zach via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
> wrote:
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>> -BUT- That does not mean it *can't* be restored, only that $15,000 is
>> ridiculous for a machine that clearly needs an expert with time and money.
>> b
> 
> True, it is a silly price. I was thinking about this on the forum: If someone 
> offers to buy one of my fully running 8/L's for 6k I'll put in an offer on 
> this one for 3k and restore it. The extra 3k will be used to buy beer to help 
> me forget about all of the little mouse ghosts I'm going to find. :-)
> 
> I'd offer 3k for it outright, but to be honest I can't have 3 pdp8/L's AND an 
> 8/e. At some point I'd have to wire them into some sort of nightmare SMP 
> pdp8....

Or DECnet/8, though I suspect an 8/L can't run that.

        paul