[SunRescue] OT: Dec stuff at auction

[Alan Rubin]

what part of australia is this auction in?

alan

On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Robert Rose wrote:

> At the local weekly computer auction, we occasionally get some
> non-PeeCee stuff come up (it's the only reason I ever go) and quite
> often it goes really cheap (e.g. Sparc LX for $AUS40).  Anyway
> tomorrow's auction has the following interesting items:
> 
> Dec VAXStation 4000 VLC
> 2 x Dec Multia (Alpha)
> 
> Now I know very little about Dec stuff (about as much as I can get from
> searching Google), so I'm wondering if anyone on the list can provide
> advice on 
> 
> 1. What this stuff might be worth.
> 2. If this stuff is worth bidding on at all.
> 3. If I manage to beat the SIMM sluts (will buy _anything_ if they can
> make a profit on selling the RAM out of it), what are my chances of ever
> getting an operating system to run on them.
> 
> Anyway, replies to me in person are fine (to keep the OT stuff off the
> list), flames to /dev/null as usual.
> 
> Rob.
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