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  2. From: chapman@cs.cornell.edu (Richard Chapman)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
  4. Subject: Re: What about a pdp-8? (was: value of a pdp-11,va)
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov17.042818.9780@cs.cornell.edu>
  6. Date: 17 Nov 92 04:28:18 GMT
  7. References: <n0df4t@ofa123.fidonet.org> <1992Nov11.172715.6490@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Nov16.152944.28565@searchtech.com> <1992Nov17.040711.9278@cs.cornell.edu>
  8. Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
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  11. chapman@cs.cornell.edu (Richard Chapman) writes:
  12.  
  13. >Price
  14. >is pretty much what you can get someone to pay (I paid $5 for the one
  15. >I have) since they don't have any use for real work (unlike the pdp-11
  16.                                            ^^^^^^^^^ Ever realize
  17. microseconds after hitting enter that you shouldn't have said
  18. something? While you cannot, to the best of my knowledge, buy a new
  19. PDP-8 from DEC at this point, I'm sure there are lots in use for
  20. "real work". Sorry!
  21.  
  22. Yours,
  23. Richard Chapman 
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